From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F846B00A9 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 15:11:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:11:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bug 12832] New: kernel leaks a lot of memory Message-Id: <20090308121143.0f8da203.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090308165403.4d85da50@mjolnir.ossman.eu> References: <20090307122452.bf43fbe4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090307220055.6f79beb8@mjolnir.ossman.eu> <20090307141316.85cb1f62.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090308110006.0208932d@mjolnir.ossman.eu> <20090308113619.0b610f31@mjolnir.ossman.eu> <20090308123825.GA25172@localhost> <20090308165403.4d85da50@mjolnir.ossman.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pierre Ossman Cc: Wu Fengguang , bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:54:03 +0100 Pierre Ossman wrote: > I've gone through the dumps now, and still no meaningful difference. > All the big bootmem allocations are present in both kernels, and the > remaining memory in initcall is also the same for both (and doesn't > really decrease by any meaningful amount). > > I also tried booting with init=/bin/sh, and the lost memory is present > even at that point. > So we know that the memory gets consumed after end-of-initcalls and before exec-of-init? -- 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: email@kvack.org