On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> here is version #6 of the new VM patch, against 2.4.0-test4.
>
> Thanks to watashi on #kernelnewbies, the memory leak has been
> removed from the code and this patch _actually works_...
AAARRRGGGHHHHH......
OK, I overlooked one of the bad bad bad mistakes watashi
saw .. here is an -incremental- patch to fix the last
possible source of memory leakage...
regards,
Rik
-- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/
--- linux-2.4.0-test4/mm/page_alloc.c.p6 Mon Aug 14 19:27:52 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test4/mm/page_alloc.c Mon Aug 14 19:28:08 2000 @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ if (direct_reclaim) page = reclaim_page(z); if (!page) - rmqueue(z, order); + page = rmqueue(z, order); if (page) return page; }
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