Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2008 08:44:31 -0700 | From | Nishanth Aravamudan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning |
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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
-- Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> IBM Linux Technology Center
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