Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-18 size-4096 memory leaks | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | 26 Nov 2003 11:51:02 +0000 |
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Hi,
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:29, yuval yeret wrote:
> I saw a discussion around similar problems in 2.6.0 (2.6.0-test5/6 (and > probably 7 too) size-4096 memory leak - http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/10/17/5 ) > and an ext3 patch was suggested by Andrew Morton. > > From a brief look the code in 2.4 it seems like the patch might be relevant > here as well. Is the size-4096 leak a known issue for 2.4 ? > Is the 2.6 patch applicable in 2.4 as well ?
No. The journal_release_buffer() code is not used, or even enabled, on 2.4. There is one set of patches which can use it on 2.4 --- the EA/ACL code does, but only for extended attributes, and the leak mentioned above only affects release_buffer() on bitmap buffers.
Cheers, Stephen
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