Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression?

[Pekka Enberg]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (Pekka? This is a real _problem_. The whole "confused debugging" is
> wasting a lot of peoples time. Can we please try to get slabinfo
> statistics work right for the merged state. Or perhaps decide to just
> not merge at all?)

I sent proof of concept patches that hopefully fix SLUB statistics for
merged case. Lets see what Christoph and David think of them and if
it's a dead end, I'd be inclined to rip out slab merging
completely....

                       Pekka
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