Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759026Ab1D3Uuf (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:50:35 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:52373 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755157Ab1D3Uub convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:50:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:50:04 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc5-git4: Reported regressions from 2.6.38 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alex Elder , xfs@oss.sgi.com Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Maciej Rutecki , Florian Mickler , Andrew Morton , Kernel Testers List , Network Development , Linux ACPI , Linux PM List , Linux SCSI List , Linux Wireless List , DRI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1620 Lines: 43 On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Bug-Entry ? ? ? : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34012 > Subject ? ? ? ? : 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks > Submitter ? ? ? : Christian Kujau > Date ? ? ? ? ? ?: 2011-04-22 1:57 (9 days old) > Message-ID ? ? ?: > References ? ? ?: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130343744622331&w=2 Judging by the extended debug info in: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.39-rc4/oom/ (The -9 files are the current ones) that thing shows a _lot_ of xfs inodes: xfs_inode 479187 479187 1120 14 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 34329 34329 0 even though there aren't that many dentries (each inode should have at least one dentry associated with it under normal circumstances): dentry 97896 97900 160 25 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 3916 3916 0 and then later when the system gets low on memory, the dentries shrink: dentry 1017 3525 160 25 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 141 141 0 but the XFS inodes do not: xfs_inode 557579 557579 1120 14 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 41492 41492 0 so I suspect it's some kind of XFS inode leak. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/