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

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 28 2011 - 16:29:53 EST


On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> On Thu, 28 April 2011 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > - return idle ? HRTIMER_NORESTART : HRTIMER_RESTART;
> > + return HRTIMER_RESTART;
>
> This doesn't help here.
> Be it applied on top of the others, full diff attached
> or applied alone (with throttling printk).
>
> Could it be that NO_HZ=y has some importance in this matter?

Might be. Can you try with nohz=off on the kernel command line ?

Can you please provide the output of /proc/timer_list ?

Thanks,

tglx