From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261899AbTDMVne (for ); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:43:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262001AbTDMVne (for ); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:43:34 -0400 Received: from svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com ([24.136.46.5]:39690 "EHLO svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261899AbTDMVnd (for ); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:43:33 -0400 Subject: Re: Preempt on PowerPC/SMP appears to leak memory From: Robert Love To: David Brown Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030412152951.GA10367@codewhore.org> References: <20030412152951.GA10367@codewhore.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1050270927.767.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 (1.2.4-2) Date: 13 Apr 2003 17:55:27 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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