Re: [patch 12/12] mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Date: Fri Jun 08 2012 - 09:29:04 EST


Oleg Nesterov wrote:
On 06/08, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:

As result you can see "BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88040783a680 idx:1 val:-1" in dmesg

There left only one problem: nobody calls sync_mm_rss() after put_user() in mm_release().

Both callers call sync_mm_rss() to make check_mm() happy. But please
see the changelog, I think we should move it into mm_release(). See
the patch below (on top of v2 I sent). I need to recheck.

Patch below broken: it removes one hunk from kernel/exit.c twice.
And it does not add anything into mm_release().


As for xacct_add_tsk(), yes it can "miss" that put_user(). But this
is what we have now, I think we do not care.

Oleg.

--- x/fs/exec.c
+++ x/fs/exec.c
@@ -822,7 +822,6 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *m
mm_release(tsk, old_mm);

if (old_mm) {
- sync_mm_rss(old_mm);
/*
* Make sure that if there is a core dump in progress
* for the old mm, we get out and die instead of going
--- x/kernel/exit.c
+++ x/kernel/exit.c
@@ -656,7 +656,6 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct *
if (!mm)
return;

- sync_mm_rss(mm);
/*
* Serialize with any possible pending coredump.
* We must hold mmap_sem around checking core_state
--- x/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ x/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -630,8 +630,7 @@ void taskstats_exit(struct task_struct *
if (!stats)
goto err;

- if (tsk->mm)
- sync_mm_rss(tsk->mm);
+ sync_mm_rss(tsk->mm);
fill_stats(tsk, stats);

/*
--- x/kernel/exit.c
+++ x/kernel/exit.c
@@ -656,7 +656,6 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct *
if (!mm)
return;

- sync_mm_rss(mm);
/*
* Serialize with any possible pending coredump.
* We must hold mmap_sem around checking core_state


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