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Message-ID: <43e72e890908301029t71a9c1a2t3d17e99cf3112ad2@mail.gmail.com>
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
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