[Starlingx-discuss] Opinion wanted on STX 2.0 kernel memory leak bug 1836638

[Rowsell, Brent]

Nice work !
+1 on doing both kernels.

Brent

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> On Aug 23, 2019, at 5:58 AM, Jim Somerville <jim.somerville at windriver.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I have identified 3 kernel patches to fix the observed memory leak in the RT kernel.  Namely listed here in comment 53: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1836638/comments/53
> 
> While the leak is only really seen in RT, the fixes are not RT specific.  The RT kernel has ferreted out many linux bugs in the past mainly due to its different scheduling points, and running irq handlers as kernel threads, causing things to run in a different order from std.
> 
> So should these patches be applied to both of our kernels, even though we only see the leaking on RT?  I would say yes, but don't want to waste my, and possibly Yi's, time if approvers disagree.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jim