Re: [Bug 12832] New: kernel leaks a lot of memory

[Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>]

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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:19:17 +0800
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:

> 
> Here is the initial patch and tool for finding the missing pages.
> 
> In the following example, the pages with no flags set is kind of too
> many (1816MB), but hopefully your missing pages will have PG_reserved
> or other flags set ;-)
> 
> # ./page-types
> L:locked E:error R:referenced U:uptodate D:dirty L:lru A:active S:slab W:writeback x:reclaim B:buddy r:reserved c:swapcache b:swapbacked
>  

Thanks. I'll have a look in a bit. Right now I'm very close to a
complete bisect. It is just ftrace commits left though, so I'm somewhat
sceptical that it is correct. ftrace isn't even turned on in the
kernels I've been testing.

The remaining commits are ec1bb60bb..6712e299.

Rgds
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