Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty

Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-31T19:59:07Z

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:33 PM, John W.
> Linville<linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:30:15PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > OK I tried this, I even 'rm -rf * ; git checkout -f' and ..
>>> > merge-2009-08-28 tag yields the same issues, long lag upon bootup with
>>> > some kmemleaks I cannot even get to check. So somehow something is
>>> > different between merge-2009-08-28 and Linus' rc8. This is just
>>> > bizarre so to be even safer I'm just going to do a fresh git clone on
>>> > wireless-testing.
>>>
>>> Hey John so I tested wireless-testing on the merge-2009-08-28 tag on a
>>> fresh git pull and verified this is indeed busted for me. Although I
>>> had tried hpa's linux-2.6-allstable on HEAD just to be sure I am now
>>> building Linus' tree from a fresh git clone on the v2.6.31-rc8 tag
>>> just to be double check this was indeed not a 2.6.31-rc8 issue but
>>> instead *something* on wireless-testing. What that something is is
>>> unclear to me still, I guess after all these tests I'll run a manual
>>> diff as git doesn't seem to be picking anything up.
>>
>> As you determined, there is no difference between merge-2009-08-28
>> and v2.6.31-rc8.  If one works and the other doesn't, then the main
>> thing not working will be git...
>
> Hm that would suck big time. At any rate, even if it was git
> wireless-testing seems to have an issue right now. I'll confirm
> shortly with Linus' own tree.
>
>> What is linux-2.6-allstable?
>
> hpa's collection of 2.6 stable kernels, including extraversion stuff.
>
>> My guess is that the culprit is between
>> v2.6.31-rc8 and whatever is at the head of linux-2.6-allstable.
>
> But the issue is *not* in linux-2.6-allstable, it is only present on
> wireless-testing, and I went as far back as merge-2009-08-28. I was
> using whatever tag was available prior to you moving to rc8, and that
> worked.

Good news is Linus' rc8 tag *has the same issue* so the reason why
wireless-testing has it is rc8 *does indeed have it*.

So Peter, if there is something extra or missing from
linux-2.6-allstable head it certainly fixed my issues, will have to
try a new respin of it to ensure it wasn't a fluke. Odd thing too
though is even my distribution kernel (karmic rc8 generic) works fine.

At least now I can safely bisect between rc7 and rc8, or pull the
kmemleaks branch and see if that fixed.

Luis