Re: [PATCH 34/34] mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot beembedded to struct page

From: Andrey Wagin
Date: Wed Nov 20 2013 - 08:29:54 EST


2013/11/20 Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Andrey Wagin wrote:
>> 2013/11/20 Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Andrey Wagin wrote:
>> >> Hi Kirill,
>> >>
>> >> Looks like this patch adds memory leaks.
>> >> [ 116.188310] kmemleak: 15672 new suspected memory leaks (see
>> >> /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
>> >> unreferenced object 0xffff8800da45a350 (size 96):
>> >> comm "dracut-initqueu", pid 93, jiffies 4294671391 (age 362.277s)
>> >> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>> >> 07 00 07 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 6b 6b 6b 6b .....N......kkkk
>> >> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 80 24 b4 82 ff ff ff ff .........$......
>> >> backtrace:
>> >> [<ffffffff817152fe>] kmemleak_alloc+0x5e/0xc0
>> >> [<ffffffff811c34f3>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x113/0x290
>> >> [<ffffffff811920f7>] __ptlock_alloc+0x27/0x50
>> >> [<ffffffff81192849>] __pmd_alloc+0x59/0x170
>> >> [<ffffffff81195ffa>] copy_page_range+0x38a/0x3e0
>> >> [<ffffffff8105a013>] dup_mm+0x313/0x540
>> >> [<ffffffff8105b9da>] copy_process+0x161a/0x1880
>> >> [<ffffffff8105c01b>] do_fork+0x8b/0x360
>> >> [<ffffffff8105c306>] SyS_clone+0x16/0x20
>> >> [<ffffffff81727b79>] stub_clone+0x69/0x90
>> >> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>> >>
>> >> It's quite serious, because my test host went to panic in a few hours.
>> >
>> > Sorry for that.
>> >
>> > Could you test patch below.
>>
>> Yes, it works.
>>
>> I found this too a few minutes ago:)
>
> Nice
>
> Tested-by ?

Tested-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
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> Kirill A. Shutemov
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