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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning
On 08.05.2008 [07:52:30 -0700], Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 16:34 +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> > While trying to reproduce this, I noticed that the huge page wouldn't
> > leak when I just mmapped it and exited without explicitly unmapping, as
> > I described before. The huge page is leaked only when the
> > /proc/self/pagemap entry for the huge page is read.
>
> Well, that's an interesting data point! :)

Indeed it is! Would explain why we've not seen any leaks until now. I
will try to investigate, as well.

Thanks,
Nish

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Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center


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