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SubjectRe: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Dave Hansen wrote:
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> Strangely enough, it seems to be one single, persistent page.

Ok. Almost certainly not a leak.

It's most likely the FIFO that "init" opens (/dev/initctl). FIFO's use the
pipe code too.

If you don't want unreclaimable highmem pages, then I suspect you just
need to change the GFP_HIGHUSER to a GFP_USER in fs/pipe.c

Linus
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