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Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] Possible memory leak in ath9k monitor mode
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 20:18 +0100, Matteo Croce wrote:

> # echo scan >/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak ; cat
> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> kmemleak: 197 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
> unreferenced object 0xc5cfea80 (size 192):
>   comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 14191
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

that's kinda useless, can you run

for slab in /sys/kernel/slab/* ; do echo $(cat $slab/objects) in $slab ; do=
ne|sort -n

and tell us which one increases most?

johannes

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