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From: "Breton M. Saunders" <brett@mynah-software.com>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: significant ioremap leak in i915?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:58:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <543B5BDA.2030306@mynah-software.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM=9twwoLUECY0khjPy_y3Mxaeaho3hLF74B94A5oWQEeE6Aw@mail.gmail.com>

On 13/10/14 02:09, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>>>     So in this example 268 megabytes have been lost.
>>>
>>> This isn't RAM, its address space mapping, its not really a leak at all.
>> It really doesn't matter whether it is ram or mapping; its a resource leak
>> that causes the system to OOM and panic.
> hey I was trying to help you come up to speed as requested, you don't
> have to believe me.
I apologize, and I appreciate your help.

I do believe you.

It also appears that the mapping I jumped on wasn't the root cause of 
the problem; I'm still investigating.

     -Brett

      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-13  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-12  9:28 significant ioremap leak in i915? Breton M. Saunders
2014-10-12 10:23 ` Dave Airlie
2014-10-12 11:07   ` Breton M. Saunders
2014-10-13  1:09     ` Dave Airlie
2014-10-13  4:58       ` Breton M. Saunders [this message]

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