Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for-4.19-rc8

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Oct 10 2018 - 05:14:04 EST


On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 03:28:15PM -0700, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> The new percpu allocator introduced in 4.14 had a missing free for the
> percpu metadata. This caused a memory leak when percpu memory is being
> churned resulting in the allocation and deallocation of percpu memory
> chunks.
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
>
> The following changes since commit 0238df646e6224016a45505d2c111a24669ebe21:
>
> Linux 4.19-rc7 (2018-10-07 17:26:02 +0200)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu.git for-4.19-fixes

Now merged, thanks.

greg k-h