Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:02:09 -0400 | From | David Brown <> | Subject | Re: Preempt on PowerPC/SMP appears to leak memory |
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 05:57:24PM -0400, Robert Love wrote: | 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
Hi Robert:
Thanks for the reply and the patch. I'll give the 2.4.20-2 patch a shot. If I'm still seeing the leak after applying it, I'll do my best to track it down (I already know it's somewhere in the fork() path, just based on the mean-time-before-death of a few test scripts I was playing with).
I probably won't be able to isolate it down to a single line; I should, however, be able to capture enough information so that someone with far more awareness of the kernel's guts than I can track it down. :)
Thanks again,
- Dave
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