linux-kernel - Re: Major slab mem leak with 2.6.17 / GCC 4.1.1

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Message-Id: <1160935198.6007.14.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
Date:	Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:59:58 +0000
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	nmeyers@...tmark.com
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Major slab mem leak with 2.6.17 / GCC 4.1.1

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 10:14 -0400, nmeyers@...tmark.com wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:59:14AM +0000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:59 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On 13/10/06, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:
> > > > On 10/13/06, nmeyers@...tmark.com <nmeyers@...tmark.com> wrote:
> > > > > If anyone has a version of kmemleak that I can build with 4.1.1, or
> > > > > any other suggestions for instrumentation, I'd be happy to gather more
> > > > > data - the problem is very easy for me to reproduce.
> > 
> > 2.6.19-rc1 + patch-2.6.19-rc1-kmemleak-0.11 compiles fine now (unless
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_KEEP_INIT is set), boots and runs too.. but axle grease
> > runs a lot faster ;-)  I'll try a stripped down config sometime.
> > 
> > 	-Mike
> 
> Thanks for digging that up - I'm building gcc now and will let you
> know if any useful info emerges.

Buyer beware of course ;-)

	-Mike

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