From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752490AbZIAAcD (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:32:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752433AbZIAAcC (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:32:02 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com ([209.85.223.204]:37906 "EHLO mail-iw0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752361AbZIAAcB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:32:01 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=km9fCeEOOJYk6PZPweIdCeXDXF384S1SWDLMivH+O5zImCgVvFTjYUCKisdoWlA2pl J4yZMonkUzWRWXy9BK1fRB9HKqGd6zZXnfrEnnmpY6FECJ3yxt3MBUqs95lgThobFUZA +82+gmQxBlxMc9EmpPz3xy6M/0wCcGoe69AvE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1251764791.2158.7.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> References: <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> <1251764791.2158.7.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:31:43 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890908311731h626a5b9bu486653c755cda2fa@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty To: Eric Paris 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Eric Paris wrote: > 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   :( Thanks, the note -- so I guess best is to just pull from Linus ontop of wireless-testing. Luis