linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for March 30: [BUG] kmemleak page fault

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Date:	Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:21:56 +0200
From:	Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for March 30: [BUG] kmemleak page fault

El Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:08:35PM +0100 Catalin Marinas ha dit:

> On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 11:52 +0200, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > El Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:30:08AM +0100 Catalin Marinas ha dit:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 14:24 +0200, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > > > linux-next 20090330 causes the following page fault on an edb9302
> > > > (ARM) like board:
> > > [...]
> > > > the fault is reproducible and happens some seconds after having
> > > > finished the boot process. please tell me if you need more information
> > > > (like the .config, ...) in order to track this down
> > > 
> > > Yes, the .config would be useful. I'm mainly interested in which slab
> > > allocator you are using. I'm testing kmemleak mainly on ARM and haven't
> > > seen any issues.
> > 
> > attached is the .config for linux-next 20090401, which should be
> > roughly the same than the 20090330 one.
> > 
> > some hours ago i booted the board with 20090401 and the page fault
> > didn't happen
> 
> Do you still get this fault with the latest linux-next? I can't
> reproduce it on my ARM platform (I tried it with the latest mainline
> kernel as well).

still haven't tried with 20090402, but with 20090401 i didn't get the
fault
 
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