2013/12/30 Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 01:56:48PM -0200, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
>> From: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zan...@intel.com>
>>
>> When we call kmstest_get_cairo_ctx() and create a context, we do a
>> gem_mmap. The problem is that we lose the mmap pointer, so we leak it.
>> This patch stores the pointer and frees it at kmstest_remove_fb.
>>
>> Huge test suites like kms_flip do this operation thousands of times,
>> which makes the virtual memory size increase until the test suite gets
>> killed. Today, without this patch, we can't even run 50% of the
>> kms_flip tests due to this problem. To test this, just "./kms_flip",
>> then run "top" and sort it by the VIRT column.
>
> Bleh. kmstest is a bad example of how to handle cairo object lifetimes
> and this patch just makes it worse.

I definitely can't say I love the current code, but we need a fix
somehow. Do you have any specific suggestions that I could try?


> -Chris
>
> --
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



-- 
Paulo Zanoni
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