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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Fixes to bootconfig memory management
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:47:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4392e867-0cce-d04a-e3d1-cba152daaa1f@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210914170553.7c1e1faa@oasis.local.home>
On 9/14/21 23:05, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:48:15 -0700
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:38 PM Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > So I'll do a minimal conversion that adds "memblock_free_ptr()" and
>> > hope that people start using that. And then we can later try to move
>> > "memblock_free()" to a name that isn't so misleading.
>>
>> Commit 77e02cf57b6c ("memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()'
>> interface") should hopefully fix that panic that Vlastimil saw, and
>> the kernel test robot report as well.
>>
>> And it should make it easy to cleanly fix that 'copy' leak too.
>>
>
> Vlastimil,
>
> Can you confirm that Linus's changes addresses your issue?
Well, looks like I can't. Commit 77e02cf57b6cf does boot fine for me,
multiple times. But so now does the parent commit 6a4746ba06191. Looks like
the magic is gone. I'm now surprised how deterministic it was during the
bisect (most bad cases manifested on first boot, only few at second).
> Masami,
>
> Care to rebase on top of Linus's change?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Steve
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-14 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-14 14:56 Steven Rostedt
2021-09-14 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 18:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-09-14 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 19:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-09-14 19:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 20:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-14 21:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-09-14 22:47 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2021-09-14 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 9:28 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-14 23:44 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-17 20:10 ` Mike Rapoport
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