From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752456AbZIAAaA (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:30:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752350AbZIAA37 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:29:59 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10088 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752312AbZIAA36 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:29:58 -0400 Subject: Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty From: Eric Paris To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "John W. Linville" , Eric Paris , Catalin Marinas , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <43e72e890908311654t5d9489d3w9a817cffab5cb8f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <43e72e890908281509o44930348w581b865107ea3e98@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890908310123w5d361ed5tff58a7663044bdcd@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890908311050s320d0ceen312a0d3d9e4fbc76@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890908311137k78ac439bs4edf376d07343a32@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890908311230u28b0642ep7a6bfd9dab82318a@mail.gmail.com> <20090831193345.GG5631@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890908311243u50b9323fveda9feaaa4d8efdb@mail.gmail.com> <20090831194753.GH5631@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890908311302s58743978wd8950f167a871cfb@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890908311654t5d9489d3w9a817cffab5cb8f8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:26:31 -0400 Message-Id: <1251764791.2158.7.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:47 PM, John W. > > Linville wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:43:01PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:33 PM, John W. > >>> Linville wrote: > >> > >>> > My guess is that the culprit is between > >>> > v2.6.31-rc8 and whatever is at the head of linux-2.6-allstable. > >>> > >>> But the issue is *not* in linux-2.6-allstable, it is only present on > >>> wireless-testing, and I went as far back as merge-2009-08-28. I was > >>> using whatever tag was available prior to you moving to rc8, and that > >>> worked. > >> > >> OK, then I can only guess that something went wrong in your bisection > >> (e.g. dirty build, something not marked properly, etc). > > > > Well so remember I did a clean git clone of wireless-testing and the > > issue was still there, but I determined just now it seems rc8 from > > Linus does indeed also have the issue. For some reason the issue was > > not present on hpa's rc8 on linux-2.6-allstable. Will double check on > > that again. > > OK so hpa's tree just had all of Linus' stuff pulled, not just rc8. It > turns out Eric Paris' inotify patches are required to fix 2.6.31-rc8 > for me.. I tested just one patch and it fixed my bootup lag: > > http://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git/commit/b962e7312ae87006aed6f68ceee94bdf8db08338 > > FWIW for that patch: > > Tested-by: Luis R. Rodriguez > > So -- you if you're like me and had issues with bootup lag on > wireless-testing, you can probably fix your wireless-testing by > pulling his patches: > > git pull git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git for-linus > > I saw Linus had some other fixes but I'll wait for rc9 for that as my > box seems reasonably stable right now. Yes, -rc8 broke pretty badly for a number of people. Linus did pull all of the fixes that I know of. I wouldn't suggest pulling just that one commit. All 3 of the post -rc8 patches in my tree fix -rc8 regressions :(