From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA21234 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:30:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:25:52 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Free pages leaking in 2.5.64? Message-Id: <20030311162552.7f78e764.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <1047376995.1692.23.camel@laptop-linux.cunninghams> References: <1047376995.1692.23.camel@laptop-linux.cunninghams> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi all. > > I've come across the following problem in 2.5.64. Here's example output. > The header is one page - all messages only have a single call to > get_zeroed_page between the printings and the same code works as nr_free_pages() does not account for the pages in the per-cpu head arrays. You can make the numbers look right via drain_local_pages(), but that is only 100% reliable on uniprocessor with interrupts disabled. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org