From: Alexey Fisher Subject: Re: ext4 memory leak (was Re: [PATCH] x86: _edata should include all .data.* sections on X86_64) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4A61CE59.3030905@fisher-privat.net> References: <84144f020907140019g511723dctb541f6333d1a082b@mail.gmail.com> <4A5C41C8.7040904@fisher-privat.net> <1247564356.28240.30.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <1247565175.28240.37.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <4A5C5A59.5080304@fisher-privat.net> <1247567499.28240.48.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <4A5C5FD0.3020204@fisher-privat.net> <1247574390.28240.67.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> <20090715080336.GA4823@skywalker> <4A5D9939.3000500@fisher-privat.net> <20090718115556.GA31007@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Catalin Marinas , Pekka Enberg , Kernel Testers List , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Sam Ravnborg , linux-ext4-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ingo Molnar Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090718115556.GA31007-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar schrieb: > * Alexey Fisher wrote: > >> This patch work for me. > > nice. Any leftovers that might be false positives and need > annotation? > > We learned this with lockdep: the moment a typical x86 distro bootup > is 'warnings free', utility of the debugging facility increases > dramatically: people can standardize on 'kmemleak should never > produce warnings' workflows and distros can also start feeding > kmemleak reports into kerneloops.org or so. > > So the general direction kmemleak is moving into is really > encouraging. > > Ingo suddenly my kernel is not warning free... i have still warning about acpi_init, cpufreg, intel_gem and inoitfy on my PC and about firmware loader on my laptop. So i think there is still some job to do. I will report this warnings soon.