free_cache_attributes() kfree's: per_cpu(ici_cpuid4_info, cpu)->l3 which is a pointer to memory which was allocated as a block in amd_init_l3_cache(). l3 of a particular cpu points to a part of this memory blob. The part and the rest of the blob are still referenced by other cpus. As far as I can tell from the git history this is a leftover from the conversion from per cpu to node data with commit ba06edb63(x86, cacheinfo: Make L3 cache info per node) and the following commit f658bcfb2(x86, cacheinfo: Cleanup L3 cache index disable support) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c @@ -820,7 +820,6 @@ static void __cpuinit free_cache_attribu for (i = 0; i < num_cache_leaves; i++) cache_remove_shared_cpu_map(cpu, i); - kfree(per_cpu(ici_cpuid4_info, cpu)->l3); kfree(per_cpu(ici_cpuid4_info, cpu)); per_cpu(ici_cpuid4_info, cpu) = NULL; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/