Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression?

From: Pádraig Brady
Date: Wed Apr 27 2011 - 15:19:42 EST


On 27/04/11 19:41, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> On Wed, 27 April 2011 Bruno Prémont wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:28:37 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Bruno Prémont wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Just in case, /proc/$(pidof rcu_kthread)/status shows ~20k voluntary
>>>>> context switches and exactly one non-voluntary one.
>>>>>
>>>>> In addition when rcu_kthread has stopped doing its work
>>>>> `swapoff $(swapdevice)` seems to block forever (at least normal shutdown
>>>>> blocks on disabling swap device).
>
> Apparently it's not swapoff but `umount -a -t tmpfs` that's getting
> stuck here. Manual swapoff worked.

Anything to do with this?
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/60953/

cheers,
Pádraig.
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