Re: perf: kernel memory leak when inherit enabled

[Vince Weaver]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Vince Weaver wrote:
> 
> While trying to use perf events with inherit enabled to profile some 
> multi-threaded BLAS routines (using PAPI) I ended up out-of-memorying my 
> machine.  It turns out you can quickly leak gigabytes of kernel memory
> that isn't freed when the process exits.

I've bisected this.  There's a whole day I'll never see again. binutils 
2.21 and gcc-4.5 for the lose :(

Anyway this memory leak with inherit was introduced in 
  4fd38e4595e

Vince

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