On 04/04/2012 11:03 AM, Dan Magenheimer wrote: >> From: Seth Jennings [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:14 AM >> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman >> Cc: Nitin Gupta; Dan Magenheimer; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; Robert Jennings; >> Seth Jennings; >> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: [PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: fix memory leak >> >> From: Nitin Gupta <[email protected]> >> >> This patch fixes a memory leak in zsmalloc where the first >> subpage of each zspage is leaked when the zspage is freed. >> >> Based on 3.4-rc1. >> >> Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <[email protected]> >> Acked-by: Seth Jennings <[email protected]> > > This is a rather severe memory leak and will affect most > benchmarking anyone does to evaluate zcache in 3.4 (e.g. as > to whether zcache is suitable for promotion), so t'would be nice > to get this patch in for -rc2. (Note it fixes a "regression" > since it affects zcache only in 3.4+ because the fix is to > the new zsmalloc allocator... so no change to stable trees.) > > Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <[email protected]>
Thanks Dan for this clarification and the Ack. I should have tagged this as urgent for the 3.4 release and no impact on stable trees, since 3.4 is the first release with this code. -- Seth _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
