Re: Preempt on PowerPC/SMP appears to leak memory

From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 16:55:27 EST


On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 11:29, David Brown wrote:

> Before I debug/trace any further, I'm curious as to whether or not
> preempt is known to work on PowerPC in SMP mode. If it's supposed to,
> I'd be happy to capture any data that may help.

It should work OK. The memory leak is certainly unexpected.

Someone else has reported a similar leak on x86... so you are not
alone. It might be a bug in the 2.4.20 kernel itself. Think you can
track down what is leaking?

        Robert Love

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