Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758733Ab1DYRvF (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:51:05 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:45717 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758203Ab1DYRvD (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:51:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=STfMlNTeFDSHkFRxIH0G+8aSS9ku6lVfb62inqWwIlZsSXIMKyhdBV0xC1KX4IHPFf dJg6K2HG6qzimorKX18eBTbHkUgNSiVhJBb89parQAYWqDFqAIUeOhBcto+d3LbKR6Gh q8OTSqzVQnsUSac+/ZrLtupjQtUGPpPGURsMk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110424202158.45578f31@neptune.home> <20110424235928.71af51e0@neptune.home> <20110425114429.266A.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20110425111705.786ef0c5@neptune.home> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:51:01 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 38WoNBwXtJf6ocLtU9gGVM_j0Ss Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression? From: Pekka Enberg To: Linus Torvalds Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bruno_Pr=E9mont?= , Mike Frysinger , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 804 Lines: 18 On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (Pekka? This is a real _problem_. The whole "confused debugging" is > wasting a lot of peoples time. Can we please try to get slabinfo > statistics work right for the merged state. Or perhaps decide to just > not merge at all?) I sent proof of concept patches that hopefully fix SLUB statistics for merged case. Lets see what Christoph and David think of them and if it's a dead end, I'd be inclined to rip out slab merging completely.... Pekka -- 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/