linux-kernel - Re: 3.0-rc3 kmemleak reports

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Message-ID: <20110621101815.GB10396@1n450.cable.virginmedia.net>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:18:15 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...m.fraunhofer.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.0-rc3 kmemleak reports

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:00:25PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 11:57 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:40:15AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> >>For some reasons I build a kernel with kmemleak support and got a
> >>few reports.
> >
> >Do you know if they appear in 2.6.39 as well?
> 
> No idea, if it is important I can build a previous kernel version

It would be good, if you have time, as people can at least restrict the
range of commits to check. It could as well be a kmemleak false
positive, can't tell for sure. The ACPI reports are in general difficult
to identify, unless you find some commit that introduced them.

> (but please, no bisecting, I'm too busy with other things).

No problem, thanks anyway.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin
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