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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:29:01 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com> To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> Subject: Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Theodore Tso<tytso@....edu> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:04:17PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >> > The ext4 reports are real leaks and patch was posted here - >> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/15/62. However, it hasn't been merged into >> > mainline yet (I cc'ed Aneesh). >> >> The patch is part of ext4-patchqueue http://repo.or.cz/w/ext4-patch-queue.git >> >> Any plans to push the patches to linus tree soon ? > > Yes, as soon as the next merge window opens. The leak only shows up > when you mount and unmount a filesystem, which under normal > circumstances doesn't happen a huge number of times on most systems. > By the time it showed up it was late enough in the 2.6.31-rcX series > that I figured it was better to wait until the next merge window. I > didn't consider it a high priority bug. That's odd I run into this kmemleak with a single bootup, no manual remounts. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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