Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 10:53:00 EST


On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 16:34 +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> While trying to reproduce this, I noticed that the huge page wouldn't
> leak when I just mmapped it and exited without explicitly unmapping, as
> I described before. The huge page is leaked only when the
> /proc/self/pagemap entry for the huge page is read.

Well, that's an interesting data point! :)

Are you running any of your /proc/<pid>/pagemap patches?

-- Dave

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