Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262671AbVBBWcR (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:32:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262683AbVBBVUw (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:20:52 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:28555 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262912AbVBBVIl (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:08:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:08:19 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Dave Hansen cc: Lennert Van Alboom , Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , alexn@dsv.su.se, kas@fi.muni.cz, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1? In-Reply-To: <1107371221.5540.81.camel@localhost> Message-ID: References: <20050121161959.GO3922@fi.muni.cz> <20050124125649.35f3dafd.akpm@osdl.org> <200502021030.06488.lennert.vanalboom@ugent.be> <1107366560.5540.39.camel@localhost> <1107371221.5540.81.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 622 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Dave Hansen wrote: > > Strangely enough, it seems to be one single, persistent page. Ok. Almost certainly not a leak. It's most likely the FIFO that "init" opens (/dev/initctl). FIFO's use the pipe code too. If you don't want unreclaimable highmem pages, then I suspect you just need to change the GFP_HIGHUSER to a GFP_USER in fs/pipe.c Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/