Re: Linux 4.1.28

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Jul 15 2016 - 07:54:40 EST


On 07/15/2016 07:38 AM, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
>> I'm announcing the release of the 4.1.28 kernel.
>
> I have a serious memleak with 4.1.28 (like 20mb/s)
> I stripped down my kernel config and started a bisect, which came to:
>
> # first bad commit: [c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6] mm/swap.c:
> flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival
> =>
> commit c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6
> Author: Lukasz Odzioba <lukasz.odzioba@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Jun 24 14:50:01 2016 -0700
>
> mm/swap.c: flush lru pvecs on compound page arrival
>
>
> Reverting this on top 4.1.28 helps. Config attached.

Yup, this was reported and a fix is already queued for 4.1.29.


Thanks,
Sasha