From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix two potential mem leaks in MPT Fusion (mpt_attach())
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:17:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070802161730.1d5bb55b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490708021610k31a86c17y58fb631a36dfdb6a@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 01:10:02 +0200
"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So, where do we go from here?
> >
> > Where I said ;) Add a new __GFP_ flag which suppresses the warning, add
> > that flag to known-to-be-OK callsites, such as mempool_alloc().
> >
> Ok, I'll try to play around with this some more, try to filter out
> false positives and see what I'm left with (if anything - I'm pretty
> limited hardware-wise, so I can only test a small subset of drivers,
> archs etc) - I'll keep you informed, but expect a few days to pass
> before I have any news...
Make it a once-off thing for now, so the warning will disable itself after
it has triggered once. That will prevent the debug feature from making
anyone's kernel unusable.
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[not found] ` <9a8748490708020120w4bbfe6d1n6f6986aec507316@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-02 22:53 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-08-02 23:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-02 23:10 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-08-02 23:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-02 23:26 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-08-03 0:47 ` Christoph Lameter
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