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From: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 09:05:50PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> If we look for a mem leak in one of the above drivers (including sata_mv),
> is there an easy way to keep track of allocated and freed kernel memory?

I'm inclined to think sata_mv is not the cause here, as there are many
heavy users of it without error reports.  The only thing different here
are the three usb dvb dongles.

thx,

Jason.