On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 06:55 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:25:12AM +0000, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 20:49 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > I tried Catalin Marinas' kmemleak patches, and had to rebuild with
> > > GCC 3.4.6 because of a 4.1.1 compiler bug that prevents compilation
> > > of the patches.
> >
> > Yeah, seems any remotely recent gcc hates it. That puts a rather large
> > dent in usability.
> >
> > > And... building with 3.4.5 fixed the leak! So I guess I have very little
> > > detail to report - except that there's a nasty leak in 2.6.17 when built
> > > with 4.1.1.
> >
> > If you build using 3.4.5 _without_ the kmemleak patches, do you see the
> > leak again? (ie is kmemleak altering timing, or is kernel miscompiled)
>
> I wondered the same thing. I went back to the original source and .config
> - rebuilding with 3.4.6 (3.4.5 is a typo) fixed the leak.
Hmm. That leaves us with a 4.1.1 miss-compile maybe.
> > > If anyone has a version of kmemleak that I can build with 4.1.1, or
> > > any other suggestions for instrumentation, I'd be happy to gather more
> > > data - the problem is very easy for me to reproduce.
> >
> > I can only suggest trying latest/greatest to see if the issue is still
> > present, and if so, try to find a way that others may trigger it.
>
> I may just do that - apparently 4.1.2 is supposed to fix the kmemleak
> compile problem. My (admittedly lazy) inclination is to wait until that
> comes out in a Gentoo ebuild.
I think some re-evaluation is needed.
(fwiw, I tried a pre-release 4.1.2 compiler, and it still choked... I
didn't even look, so salt to taste)
-Mike
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