On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:57:20 -0800 > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > In the output of /proc/slab_allocators the number of blocks allocated by >> > usb_alloc_urb() increases, however, the xawtv is no longer running: >> > >> > size-2048: 18 usb_alloc_dev+0x1d/0x212 [usbcore] >> > size-2048: 2280 usb_alloc_urb+0xc/0x2b [usbcore] >> > size-1024: 100 usb_alloc_urb+0xc/0x2b [usbcore] >> > size-128: 10 usb_alloc_urb+0xc/0x2b [usbcore] >> > >> > Each time xawtv is started and stopped the value increases at the >> > usb_alloc_urb(). >> > >> > Expected result: the same memory usage is reached again after xawtv exited. >> > >> >> I assume this is a v4l bug and not a USB core bug? > > I guess this is a v4l bug. We've found several memory leaks on em28xx driver, > fixed at the development -git: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/devel.git > > I'll do some tests again with the latest em28xx driver to double check if it is > there any other memory leak. If not, then we could replicate the same approach > into uvcvideo. > haha you never even had a look at the issue itself. Markus > Cheers, > Mauro > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
