Re: memleaks, acpi + ext4 + tty

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Eric Paris<eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> 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<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:47 PM, John W.
>> > Linville<linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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<linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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. ÂLinus did pull all
> of the fixes that I know of. ÂI wouldn't suggest pulling just that one
> commit. ÂAll 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
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