From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3786B00A7 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:54:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:54:03 +0100 From: Pierre Ossman Subject: Re: [Bug 12832] New: kernel leaks a lot of memory Message-ID: <20090308165403.4d85da50@mjolnir.ossman.eu> In-Reply-To: <20090308123825.GA25172@localhost> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=_freyr.drzeus.cx-24440-1236527646-0001-2" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Wu Fengguang , Andrew Morton Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_freyr.drzeus.cx-24440-1236527646-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D/bin/sh, and the lost memory is present even at that point. More ideas? Rgds --=20 -- Pierre Ossman WARNING: This correspondence is being monitored by the Swedish government. Make sure your server uses encryption for SMTP traffic and consider using PGP for end-to-end encryption. --=_freyr.drzeus.cx-24440-1236527646-0001-2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmz6h4ACgkQ7b8eESbyJLjEEwCg+8ZvV0psHc9gEdo9T9NqOSh2 hewAoL65KUiHLfx5fataTyGPeAKyYsMu =W+1d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_freyr.drzeus.cx-24440-1236527646-0001-2-- -- 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