Re: ext4 memory leak (was Re: [PATCH] x86: _edata should include all .data.* sections on X86_64)

Alexey Fisher
2009-07-18T13:30:09Z

Ingo Molnar schrieb:
> * Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net> wrote:
>
>> This patch work for me.
>
> nice. Any leftovers that might be false positives and need
> annotation?
>
> We learned this with lockdep: the moment a typical x86 distro bootup
> is 'warnings free', utility of the debugging facility increases
> dramatically: people can standardize on 'kmemleak should never
> produce warnings' workflows and distros can also start feeding
> kmemleak reports into kerneloops.org or so.
>
> So the general direction kmemleak is moving into is really
> encouraging.
>
> Ingo

suddenly my kernel is not warning free... i have still warning about
acpi_init, cpufreg, intel_gem and inoitfy on my PC and about firmware
loader on my laptop. So i think there is still some job to do. I will
report this warnings soon.