When pipe is created, a dirent of pipe will be
created and its initial reference is set as 0.
Cause all dirent will only be destroyed when
the reference decreased to -1, so there is already
a 'initial reference' of dirent after it created.
For destroying dirent after all reference released,
the correct way is to drop the 'initial reference'
once someone hold a reference to the dirent, such
as fs.NewFile, otherwise the reference of dirent
will stay 0 all the time, and will cause memory
leak of dirent.
Except pipe, timerfd/eventfd/epoll has the same
problem
Here is a simple case to create memory leak of dirent
for pipe/timerfd/eventfd/epoll in C langange, after
run the case, pprof the runsc process, you will
find lots dirents of pipe/timerfd/eventfd/epoll not
freed:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int i;
int n;
int pipefd[2];
if (argc != 3) {
printf("Usage: %s epoll|timerfd|eventfd|pipe <iterations>\n", argv[0]);
}
n = strtol(argv[2], NULL, 10);
if (strcmp(argv[1], "epoll") == 0) {
for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
close(epoll_create(1));
} else if (strcmp(argv[1], "timerfd") == 0) {
for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
close(timerfd_create(CLOCK_REALTIME, 0));
} else if (strcmp(argv[1], "eventfd") == 0) {
for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
close(eventfd(0, 0));
} else if (strcmp(argv[1], "pipe") == 0) {
for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
if (pipe(pipefd) == 0) {
close(pipefd[0]);
close(pipefd[1]);
}
}
printf("%s %s test finished\r\n",argv[1],argv[2]);
return 0;
}
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