From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm/hash: Free the subpage_prot_table correctlyy
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:54:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170619175421.GC5845@ram.oc3035372033.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c73262b8-7be5-6816-c743-9cad10c045da@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:52:14PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 06/17/2017 09:30 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
> >
> > This fix, resolved the OOM seen while running subpage_prot selftest, in a
> > infinite loop.
>
> The OOM is caused because of memory leaks by wrong freeing
> of the subpage_prot_table previously ?
No. Rather, not freeing up of the memory allocated previously
and tracked through the subpage_prot_table.
RP
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-19 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-17 14:30 [PATCH] powerpc/mm/hash: Free the subpage_prot_table correctly Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-17 16:00 ` Ram Pai
2017-06-19 7:22 ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-19 17:54 ` Ram Pai [this message]
2017-07-27 12:38 ` Michael Ellerman
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