[3.1-rc6] kmalloc(64) leak from IDE

All sorts of fun with 3.1-rc! On an older x86 box still using the IDE code, I'm seeing a kmalloc(64) leak (according to slabtop) that basically OOM'd the box in a few days (640 MB of RAM). This has popped up since 2.6.36, which ran for a long time ...

Message posted on the September 22nd, 2011 - 3:30 AM ET

Linux 3.0-rc6 ..

and a happy Independence Day to all the US kernel people out there. There is not a lot to be said about -rc6. The biggest part by far is the inclusion of the intel isci driver - I was admittedly a bit doubtful about it, but it's not like it is ...

Message posted on the July 4th, 2011 - 7:20 PM ET

Linux 2.6.35

So I said -rc6 would likely be the last -rc, and nothing happened to change my mind. I'd always be happier if it had been an even quieter week, but the appended Shortlog of changes since rc6 doesn't contain anything earthshaking, and I don't think ...

Message posted on the August 1st, 2010 - 8:00 PM ET

mmotm 2012-09-20-17-25 uploaded

The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2012-09-20-17-25 has been uploaded to http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/ mmotm-readme.txt says README for mm-of-the-moment: http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/ This is a snapshot of my -mm patch queue. Uploaded at ...

Message posted on the September 20th, 2012 - 8:30 PM ET

mmotm 2010-07-27-14-56 uploaded

The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-07-27-14-56 has been uploaded to http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ and will soon be available at git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/mmotm.git It contains the following patches against 2.6.35-rc6: origin.patch ...

Message posted on the July 27th, 2010 - 6:30 PM ET

rc6 kmalloc leak