linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression?

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1104291133100.3005@ionos>
Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:34:13 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	sedat.dilek@...il.com, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning,
 regression?

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:35:44AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> >  01:35:17 up 45 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.45, 0.57, 1.27
> > 
> > Thanks to all involved people helping to kill that bug (Come on Paul, smile!).
> 
> Woo-hoo!!!!
> 
> Many thanks to Thomas for tracking this down -- it is fair to say that
> I never would have thought to look at timer initialization!  ;-)

Many thanks to the reporters who provided all the information and
tested all the random debug patches we threw at them !

       tglx
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