[PING] [v9] malloc: Consistently apply trim_threshold to all heaps [BZ #17195]

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@redhat.com
Thu May 7 05:01:00 GMT 2015


On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:20:41PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 05/04/2015 11:09 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 11:05:46AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >> Also FWIW, my trim patch is still making its way into opensuse. It got held
> >> up by a bug in another package that was using uninitialsed memory.  In the
> >> future if there is a problem that points the finger at this patch, it's
> >> worth testing with MALLOC_CHECK_ to see if that "fixes" it by zeroing memory.
> > 
> > Is this other package java?  We had openjdk crashing due to this patch
> > in rawhide.
> 
> What openjdk crash? :-)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209451

This became very frequent due to this patch.  I'm going to leave out
this patch till they figure out what the problem is.

Siddhesh
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