Re: Major slab mem leak with 2.6.17 / GCC 4.1.1

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun Oct 15 2006 - 13:30:56 EST


On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 10:14 -0400, nmeyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:59:14AM +0000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:59 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On 13/10/06, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On 10/13/06, nmeyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx <nmeyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > If anyone has a version of kmemleak that I can build with 4.1.1, or
> > > > > any other suggestions for instrumentation, I'd be happy to gather more
> > > > > data - the problem is very easy for me to reproduce.
> >
> > 2.6.19-rc1 + patch-2.6.19-rc1-kmemleak-0.11 compiles fine now (unless
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_KEEP_INIT is set), boots and runs too.. but axle grease
> > runs a lot faster ;-) I'll try a stripped down config sometime.
> >
> > -Mike
>
> Thanks for digging that up - I'm building gcc now and will let you
> know if any useful info emerges.

Buyer beware of course ;-)

-Mike

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