Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:03:38 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] btrfs-progs: Fix up memory leakage | From | Zhi Yong Wu <> |
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:14 PM, David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:02:16AM +0800, zwu.kernel@gmail.com wrote: >> From: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> >> Some code pathes forget to free memory on exit. > > Same as with the fd's, kernel will free all memory for us at exit(). hi, can you let me know the pointer to exit() said by you?
> > If there's lots of memory allocated, it may be even faster to leave the > unallocation process to kernel as it will do it in one go, while the > application would unnecessarily free it chunk by chunk. got it, thanks. > > david
-- Regards,
Zhi Yong Wu
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