Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> Strangely enough, it seems to be one single, persistent page.  

Ok. Almost certainly not a leak. 

It's most likely the FIFO that "init" opens (/dev/initctl). FIFO's use the 
pipe code too.

If you don't want unreclaimable highmem pages, then I suspect you just 
need to change the GFP_HIGHUSER to a GFP_USER in fs/pipe.c

		Linus
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