RE: Bridge issue #3! dma_alloc_coherent causing crash - pm branch

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:35 AM


> Sounds like a memory leak in the bridge driver to me.  I suggest you
> enable memory leak debugging.  In Kconfig
> 
>    Kernel Hacking -->  Kernel debugging
> 
> Enable 'Debug slab memory allocations' and its child 'Memory leak
> debugging'.
> 
> Or, you could switch to the SLUB allocator which has some more flexible
> debug options which can be controlled at boot-time from the cmdline.
> 
> While you are in the Kernel debugging menu, make sure you enable
> 'Verbose BUG()' and 'Verbose kernel errors'.  This will ensure that
> any memory leaks will be dumped with some extra debug output.

Thanks. Yep, it does sound like a mem leak... will keep the list posted as we progress.

Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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