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Message-ID: <tnxeiry88w2.fsf@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:53:33 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc4 - slab entry tak_delay_info leaking ???

Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:20:47 +0200
>> Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net> wrote:
>> > Since I'm running 2.6.31-rc? (3 or 4 I think), I often find my machine
>> > with my X session killed in the morning, and the kdm login screen
>> > displayed.
[...]
> Well, I've killed my X session, and it stopped the "leak"... but
> didn't recover the "lost" task_delay_info...

You could try to enable CONFIG_KMEMLEAK and see if you get any leaks
reported for the "lost" task_delay_info (see Documentation/kmemleak.txt).

-- 
Catalin
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