linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: stop leaking PageTables

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2017 02:29:04 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: stop leaking PageTables

On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 03:37:31PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 4.10-rc loadtest (even on x86, even without THPCache) fails with
> "fork: Cannot allocate memory" or some such; and /proc/meminfo
> shows PageTables growing.
> 
> rc1 removed the freeing of an unused preallocated pagetable after
> do_fault_around() has called map_pages(): which is usually a good
> optimization, so that the followup doesn't have to reallocate one;
> but it's not sufficient to shift the freeing into alloc_set_pte(),
> since there are failure cases (most commonly VM_FAULT_RETRY) which
> never reach finish_fault().
> 
> Check and free it at the outer level in do_fault(), then we don't
> need to worry in alloc_set_pte(), and can restore that to how it was
> (I cannot find any reason to pte_free() under lock as it was doing).
> 
> And fix a separate pagetable leak, or crash, introduced by the same
> change, that could only show up on some ppc64: why does do_set_pmd()'s
> failure case attempt to withdraw a pagetable when it never deposited
> one, at the same time overwriting (so leaking) the vmf->prealloc_pte?
> Residue of an earlier implementation, perhaps?  Delete it.
> 
> Fixes: 953c66c2b22a ("mm: THP page cache support for ppc64")
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>

Sorry, that I missed this initially.

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov