[Intel-gfx] significant ioremap leak in i915?

Breton M. Saunders brett at mynah-software.com
Mon Oct 13 06:58:02 CEST 2014


On 13/10/14 02:09, Dave Airlie wrote:
>>>>     So in this example 268 megabytes have been lost.
>>>
>>> This isn't RAM, its address space mapping, its not really a leak at all.
>> It really doesn't matter whether it is ram or mapping; its a resource leak
>> that causes the system to OOM and panic.
> hey I was trying to help you come up to speed as requested, you don't
> have to believe me.
I apologize, and I appreciate your help.

I do believe you.

It also appears that the mapping I jumped on wasn't the root cause of 
the problem; I'm still investigating.

     -Brett




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