From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262001AbTDMVpa (for ); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:45:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262005AbTDMVpa (for ); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:45:30 -0400 Received: from svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com ([24.136.46.5]:44554 "EHLO svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262001AbTDMVp3 (for ); Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:45:29 -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: <1050271044.767.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 (1.2.4-2) Date: 13 Apr 2003 17:57:24 -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: > I recently applied the preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.21-pre1-1.patch from > kernel.org to BenH's stable tree from rsync.penguinppc.org. Oh, one other thing. An updated patch for 2.4.20 is up: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.20-2.patch It has a couple fixes for proper protection of per-CPU data, including some PPC-specific ones. Robert Love