Re: KVM on aarch64 leaking about 4MB of kernel memory per launch

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I have an SOC I could try to reproduce this on (maybe the same one?). 
Care to send me any scripts to help reproduce?

-Joel

On 07/21/2014 11:37 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 01:45:15PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> The kernel uses 64 KB pages.
> I retested this with 4 KB pages (guest & host), and it leaks about
> 3MB per guest in that configuration.
>
> So this *should* be perfectly reproducible for anyone using an
> upstream kernel.  You just have to start of the order of 1000 guests
> to see significant amounts of memory disappearing (say 3+ GB).
>
> (Negative reproductions are also interesting, since it would indicate
> a problem with one of the hardware enablement patches we are using)
>
> Rich.
>

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