From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: yuval yeret <yuval_yeret@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.20-18 size-4096 memory leaks
Date: 26 Nov 2003 11:51:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1069847462.2031.3.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F65DwLK4adtttY00010f98@hotmail.com>
Hi,
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:29, yuval yeret wrote:
> I saw a discussion around similar problems in 2.6.0 (2.6.0-test5/6 (and
> probably 7 too) size-4096 memory leak - http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/10/17/5 )
> and an ext3 patch was suggested by Andrew Morton.
>
> From a brief look the code in 2.4 it seems like the patch might be relevant
> here as well. Is the size-4096 leak a known issue for 2.4 ?
> Is the 2.6 patch applicable in 2.4 as well ?
No. The journal_release_buffer() code is not used, or even enabled, on
2.4. There is one set of patches which can use it on 2.4 --- the EA/ACL
code does, but only for extended attributes, and the leak mentioned
above only affects release_buffer() on bitmap buffers.
Cheers,
Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-26 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-26 9:29 yuval yeret
2003-11-26 10:11 ` Henrik Storner
2003-11-26 11:51 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2003-11-26 10:24 yuval yeret
2003-11-26 10:57 Jean Delvare
2003-11-26 11:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-11-26 14:14 yuval yeret
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