Alan Stern wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > >> Alan Stern wrote: >>> On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Martin Mokrejs wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I am not sure how should I interpret this but I am attaching the whole >>>> kmemleak file >>>> I have after >>>> # w >>>> 23:02:23 up 2 days, 2:43, 16 users, load average: 2.17, 1.85, 1.51 >>>> [cut] >>>> >>>> I have several SATA drives connected over USB 2 and 3 (and mounted) but >>>> am not >>>> accessing them. >>> >>> Whether or not the drives are being accessed probably doesn't matter >>> much. The mere fact that they are connected can make a difference. >>> Does kmemleak report the same problems after the drives are unplugged? >>> Does the number of leaked memory regions increase if you plug in and >>> unplug a drive repeatedly? >> >> I just plugged in one drive, unconnected, a re-connected back again. >> Right after that the kmemleak file did not show any changes but that is >> probably updated by a background process? But, after some minutes, here the >> are few more! I am attaching the diff showing the timestamps. >> >> Please note that the number increased once while do physical (dis)connections >> happened meanwhile (unless that can be explained by the time lag of the >> background >> scanning before it reports the problem): >> >> [81036.084077] kmemleak: 17 new suspected memory leaks (see >> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) >> [139512.014429] kmemleak: 11 new suspected memory leaks (see >> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) > > Don't worry about what kmemleak says when the drives are plugged in. > See what it says when all the USB drives are unplugged. That's what > matters.
Now it is the only one drive connected. If I disconnect it kmemleak won't change like it did not today for many hours when all the drives were unplugged. I thought you want me to plug it in back and unplug several times. ;) So, did I answer your question now? M. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
