From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261675AbULJDxh (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:53:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261684AbULJDxh (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:53:37 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:56478 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261675AbULJDx3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:53:29 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:53:11 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Zou, Nanhai" Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch]Memory leak in sysfs Message-ID: <20041210035311.GA25754@kroah.com> References: <894E37DECA393E4D9374E0ACBBE7427013CA02@pdsmsx402.ccr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <894E37DECA393E4D9374E0ACBBE7427013CA02@pdsmsx402.ccr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:21:58AM +0800, Zou, Nanhai wrote: > Some stress testes show there is a memory leak in the latest kernel. > I found the memory leak is in sysfs. > Here is a patch against 2.6.10-rc2-mm4 to fix that. Is this still needed against the latest -bk tree? Adam just fixed a leak like this recently. And, do you have a pointer to your stress tests? I'd love to add stuff like this to an automated testing framework (I know OSDL has one, and IBM has one internally.) thanks, greg k-h