From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0E18D003B for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:51:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ywa1 with SMTP id 1so978645ywa.14 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:51:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110424202158.45578f31@neptune.home> <20110424235928.71af51e0@neptune.home> <20110425114429.266A.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20110425111705.786ef0c5@neptune.home> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:51:01 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression? From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bruno_Pr=E9mont?= , Mike Frysinger , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (Pekka? This is a real _problem_. The whole "confused debugging" is > wasting a lot of peoples time. Can we please try to get slabinfo > statistics work right for the merged state. Or perhaps decide to just > not merge at all?) I sent proof of concept patches that hopefully fix SLUB statistics for merged case. Lets see what Christoph and David think of them and if it's a dead end, I'd be inclined to rip out slab merging completely.... Pekka -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org