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

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> On Thu, 28 April 2011 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > -	return idle ? HRTIMER_NORESTART : HRTIMER_RESTART;
> > +	return HRTIMER_RESTART;
> 
> This doesn't help here.
> Be it applied on top of the others, full diff attached
> or applied alone (with throttling printk).
> 
> Could it be that NO_HZ=y has some importance in this matter?

Might be. Can you try with nohz=off on the kernel command line ?
 
Can you please provide the output of /proc/timer_list ?

Thanks,

	tglx