Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages)

[Krzysztof Oledzki]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, bugme-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9182
>
>
> ------- Comment #33 from protasnb@xxxxxxxxx  2007-12-15 14:19 -------
> Krzysztof, I'd hate point you to a hard path (at least time consuming), but
> you've done a lot of digging by now anyway. How about git bisecting between
> 2.6.20-rc2 and rc1? Here is great info on bisecting:
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html

As I'm smarter than git-bistect I can tell that 2.6.20-rc1-git8 is as bad 
as 2.6.20-rc2 but 2.6.20-rc1-git8 with one patch reverted seems to be OK. 
So it took me only 2 reboots. ;)

The guilty patch is the one I proposed just an hour ago:
 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Fstable%2Flinux-2.6.20.y.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=fba2591bf4e418b6c3f9f8794c9dd8fe40ae7bd9

So:
 - 2.6.20-rc1: OK
 - 2.6.20-rc1-git8 with fba2591bf4e418b6c3f9f8794c9dd8fe40ae7bd9 reverted: OK
 - 2.6.20-rc1-git8: very BAD
 - 2.6.20-rc2: very BAD
 - 2.6.20-rc4: very BAD
 - >= 2.6.20: BAD (but not *very* BAD!)

Best regards,

				Krzysztof Olędzki