From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so357317fga.4 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:12:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6101e8c40802221512t295566bey5a8f1c21b8751480@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:12:24 +0100 From: "Oliver Pinter" Subject: Re: SMP-related kernel memory leak In-Reply-To: <47BEFD5D.402@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6101e8c40802201342y7e792e70lbd398f84a58a38bd@mail.gmail.com> <6101e8c40802210821w626bc831uaf4c3f66fb097094@mail.gmail.com> <6101e8c40802210825v534f0ce3wf80a18ebd6dee925@mail.gmail.com> <47BDEFB4.1010106@zytor.com> <6101e8c40802220844h2553051bw38154dbad91de1e3@mail.gmail.com> <47BEFD5D.402@zytor.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Bart Van Assche , linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra List-ID: hi thanks, but 421d99193537a6522aac2148286f08792167d5fd is never in 2.6.22.y and nor stable-queue-2.6.22.y ... On 2/22/08, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Oliver Pinter wrote: > > Hi! > > > > what is the patch name or git ID? > > 96990a4ae979df9e235d01097d6175759331e88c > > However, there was a second portion, > 421d99193537a6522aac2148286f08792167d5fd, which was then reverted at > 49eaaa1a6c950e7a92c4386c199b8ec950f840b9. > > The fact that it doesn't happen on a single processor makes me believe > it's still a problem with the quicklists not getting freed properly. It > would be nice if someone could go in with system tap or just plain > "gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore" and verify if there is a large number of pages > queued up on the quicklists on some of the CPUs, while at least one of > them is zero. > > (It would be nice to have quicklist statistics exported somewhere, too.) > > -hpa > -- Thanks, Oliver -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org