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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: David Brown <dave@codewhore.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Preempt on PowerPC/SMP appears to leak memory
Date: 13 Apr 2003 17:55:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050270927.767.4.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030412152951.GA10367@codewhore.org>

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 11:29, David Brown wrote:

> Before I debug/trace any further, I'm curious as to whether or not
> preempt is known to work on PowerPC in SMP mode. If it's supposed to,
> I'd be happy to capture any data that may help.

It should work OK.  The memory leak is certainly unexpected.

Someone else has reported a similar leak on x86... so you are not
alone.  It might be a bug in the 2.4.20 kernel itself.  Think you can
track down what is leaking?

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-13 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-12 15:29 Preempt on PowerPC/SMP appears to leak memory David Brown
2003-04-13 21:55 ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-04-13 21:57 ` Robert Love
2003-04-13 22:02   ` David Brown
2003-04-13 23:03   ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-04-13 23:07     ` Robert Love
2003-04-13 23:12       ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-04-14  2:26   ` David Brown

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