From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for-4.19-rc8
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 11:13:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181010091358.GB2932@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181009222815.GA56709@dennisz-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 03:28:15PM -0700, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> The new percpu allocator introduced in 4.14 had a missing free for the
> percpu metadata. This caused a memory leak when percpu memory is being
> churned resulting in the allocation and deallocation of percpu memory
> chunks.
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
>
> The following changes since commit 0238df646e6224016a45505d2c111a24669ebe21:
>
> Linux 4.19-rc7 (2018-10-07 17:26:02 +0200)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu.git for-4.19-fixes
Now merged, thanks.
greg k-h
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2018-10-09 22:28 [GIT PULL] percpu fixes for-4.19-rc8 Dennis Zhou
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