Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 03:03:30 EST


On Mon, Jan 24 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Would indicate that the new pipe code is leaking.
>
> Duh. It's the pipe merging.
>
> Linus
>
> ----
> --- 1.40/fs/pipe.c 2005-01-15 12:01:16 -08:00
> +++ edited/fs/pipe.c 2005-01-24 14:35:09 -08:00
> @@ -630,13 +630,13 @@
> struct pipe_inode_info *info = inode->i_pipe;
>
> inode->i_pipe = NULL;
> - if (info->tmp_page)
> - __free_page(info->tmp_page);
> for (i = 0; i < PIPE_BUFFERS; i++) {
> struct pipe_buffer *buf = info->bufs + i;
> if (buf->ops)
> buf->ops->release(info, buf);
> }
> + if (info->tmp_page)
> + __free_page(info->tmp_page);
> kfree(info);
> }

It's better now, no leak anymore. But the 2.6.11-rcX vm is still very
screwy, to get something close to nice and smooth behaviour I have to
run a fillmem every now and then to reclaim used memory.

--
Jens Axboe

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