Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261237AbVBGRhI (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:37:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261229AbVBGRg4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:36:56 -0500 Received: from relay.muni.cz ([147.251.4.35]:32990 "EHLO tirith.ics.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261233AbVBGRgY (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:36:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:35:43 +0100 From: Jan Kasprzak To: axboe@home.kernel.dk Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jens Axboe , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1? Message-ID: <20050207173543.GD24513@fi.muni.cz> References: <20050121161959.GO3922@fi.muni.cz> <20050207110030.GI24513@fi.muni.cz> <20050207155202.GY24513@fi.muni.cz> <56189.130.226.172.129.1107794295.squirrel@webmail.axboe.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56189.130.226.172.129.1107794295.squirrel@webmail.axboe.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Muni-Envelope-From: kas@fi.muni.cz X-Muni-Virus-Test: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 29 axboe@home.kernel.dk wrote: : My guess would be the clone change, if raid was not leaking before. I : cannot lookup any patches at the moment, as I'm still at the hospital : taking care of my new born baby and wife :) Congratulations! : But try and reverse the patches to fs/bio.c that mention corruption due to : bio_clone and bio->bi_io_vec and see if that cures it. If it does, I know : where to look. When did you notice this started to leak? I think I have been running 2.6.10-rc3 before. I've copied the fs/bio.c from 2.6.10-rc3 to my 2.6.11-rc2 sources and booted the resulting kernel. I hope it will not eat my filesystems :-) I will send my /proc/slabinfo in a few days. -Yenya -- | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak | | GPG: ID 1024/D3498839 Fingerprint 0D99A7FB206605D7 8B35FCDE05B18A5E | | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/ Czech Linux Homepage: http://www.linux.cz/ | > Whatever the Java applications and desktop dances may lead to, Unix will < > still be pushing the packets around for a quite a while. --Rob Pike < - 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/