Slub: Increased mem consumption on cpu,mem-less node powerpc guest

Srikar Dronamraju srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Mar 18 03:25:36 AEDT 2020


* Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz> [2020-03-17 16:56:04]:

> 
> I wonder why do you get a memory leak while Sachin in the same situation [1]
> gets a crash? I don't understand anything anymore.

Sachin was testing on linux-next which has Kirill's patch which modifies
slub to use kmalloc_node instead of kmalloc. While Bharata is testing on
upstream, which doesn't have this. 

> 
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/3381CD91-AB3D-4773-BA04-E7A072A63968@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
> 

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