From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 12832] New: kernel leaks a lot of memory
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:11:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090308121143.0f8da203.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090308165403.4d85da50@mjolnir.ossman.eu>
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:54:03 +0100 Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> wrote:
> I've gone through the dumps now, and still no meaningful difference.
> All the big bootmem allocations are present in both kernels, and the
> remaining memory in initcall is also the same for both (and doesn't
> really decrease by any meaningful amount).
>
> I also tried booting with init=/bin/sh, and the lost memory is present
> even at that point.
>
So we know that the memory gets consumed after end-of-initcalls and
before exec-of-init?
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-12832-27@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2009-03-07 20:24 ` [Bug 12832] New: kernel leaks a lot of memory Andrew Morton
2009-03-07 21:00 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-07 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-07 22:53 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 10:00 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 10:36 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 12:38 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-08 14:26 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 15:54 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-08 19:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-03-08 19:23 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-07 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-09 1:37 ` Wu Fengguang
[not found] ` <20090309020701.GA381@localhost>
2009-03-09 7:40 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-09 14:22 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-09 15:02 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10 2:41 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-10 6:56 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10 8:19 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-10 9:55 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10 12:22 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-10 13:11 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-10 15:52 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10 20:21 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 1:37 ` Wu Fengguang
[not found] ` <20090311075703.35de2488@mjolnir.ossman.eu>
2009-03-11 7:14 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-11 7:26 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 7:36 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-11 7:57 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 8:20 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-11 13:05 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 13:00 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-11 15:02 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 15:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-11 16:46 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 21:43 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-12 6:50 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-12 1:08 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-12 6:55 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-12 7:29 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-03-11 14:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-11 14:35 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 16:55 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 17:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-11 18:33 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 18:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-11 18:56 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 19:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-12 2:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-12 6:53 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-10 19:58 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-03-11 0:19 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-11 7:22 ` Pierre Ossman
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