linux-kernel - Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:33:45 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
Cc:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:30:15PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@...il.com> wrote:

> > OK I tried this, I even 'rm -rf * ; git checkout -f' and ..
> > merge-2009-08-28 tag yields the same issues, long lag upon bootup with
> > some kmemleaks I cannot even get to check. So somehow something is
> > different between merge-2009-08-28 and Linus' rc8. This is just
> > bizarre so to be even safer I'm just going to do a fresh git clone on
> > wireless-testing.
> 
> Hey John so I tested wireless-testing on the merge-2009-08-28 tag on a
> fresh git pull and verified this is indeed busted for me. Although I
> had tried hpa's linux-2.6-allstable on HEAD just to be sure I am now
> building Linus' tree from a fresh git clone on the v2.6.31-rc8 tag
> just to be double check this was indeed not a 2.6.31-rc8 issue but
> instead *something* on wireless-testing. What that something is is
> unclear to me still, I guess after all these tests I'll run a manual
> diff as git doesn't seem to be picking anything up.

As you determined, there is no difference between merge-2009-08-28
and v2.6.31-rc8.  If one works and the other doesn't, then the main
thing not working will be git...

What is linux-2.6-allstable?  My guess is that the culprit is between
v2.6.31-rc8 and whatever is at the head of linux-2.6-allstable.

John
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