Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:08:08 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] only drop root anon_vma if not self | From | Dave Young <> |
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote: > Dave, > > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 02:30 +0100, Dave Young wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:19:02 +0800 >> > Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> > Manually bisected mm patches, the memleak caused by following patch: >> >> > >> >> > mm-extend-ksm-refcounts-to-the-anon_vma-root.patch >> >> >> >> >> >> So I guess the refcount break, either drop-without-get or over-drop >> > >> > I'm guessing I did not run the kernel with enough debug options enabled >> > when I tested my patches... >> > >> > Dave & Catalin, thank you for tracking this down. >> > >> > Dave, does the below patch fix your issue? >> >> Yes, it fixed the issue. Thanks. > > Thanks for investigating this issue. > > BTW, without my kmemleak nobootmem patch (and CONFIG_NOBOOTMEM enabled), > do you get other leaks (false positives).
Hi, catalin
I didn't see difference before/after apply your patch, how to test specific to bootmem?
> If my patch fixes the > nobootmem problem, can I add a Tested-by: Dave Young? > > Thanks. > > -- > Catalin > >
-- Regards dave
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