Bug 642045

Summary:	major memory leak in radeon driver due when scrolling certain sites in firefox [rhel-6.0.z]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Benjamin Kahn <bkahn>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	6.0	CC:	airlied, arozansk, cmeadors, dhoward, jlaska, jpirko, kzhang, mgordon, pm-eus, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel-2.6.32-71.4.1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, a race condition in the TTM (Translation Table Maps) module of the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) between the object destruction thread and object eviction could result in a major loss of large objects reference counts. Consequently, this caused a major amount of memory leak. With this update, the race condition no longer occurs and any memory leaks are prevented.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2010-11-10 19:11:27 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	640871
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Description Benjamin Kahn 2010-10-11 20:49:53 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #640871 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.0 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 2 Frantisek Hrbata 2010-10-12 18:53:38 UTC

in kernel-2.6.32-71.4.1.el6

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-10 19:11:27 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html

Comment 8 Martin Prpič 2010-11-11 12:04:26 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, a race condition in the TTM (Translation Table Maps) module of the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) between the object destruction thread and object eviction could result in a major loss of large objects reference counts. Consequently, this caused a major amount of memory leak. With this update, the race condition no longer occurs and any memory leaks are prevented.