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From: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
To: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.9
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On 18/08/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is interesting. Is it too large?
> orphan pointer 0xfe09f000 (size 4194304):
>   c016cb9c: <__vmalloc_node>
>   c016cbb2: <__vmalloc>
>   c016cbc7: <vmalloc>
>   fdd3bbe1: <txInit>
>   fdd23b73: <init_jfs_fs>
>   c0149fea: <sys_init_module>

Looking at the code, I don't think it is too large. Anyway, it is just
a temporary false positive as it seems to only be present in some of
the files in your tarball.

> A large collection of false positives :)
> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/o_bugs/kmemleak-0.9/ml_collection/ml1.tar

Thanks, but some of them look like real leaks :-) - delayacct_tsk_init
- I'll post a separate e-mail for this.

Have you seen any crashes or lockdep reports with the latest kmemleak patches?

-- 
Catalin
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