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| author | Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> | 2009-12-14 17:59:58 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -0800 |
| commit | 4f16fc107d9c9b8a72aa19b189a9216e90a7aaef (patch) | |
| tree | 7d2cd426ab80a30d3fc7584605738ad39a8b24be /tools/perf/scripts/python/bin | |
| parent | 536240f2bde98216feac87b4891d19a536b8884a (diff) | |
mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in mincore()
Most callers of pmd_none_or_clear_bad() check whether the target page is
in a hugepage or not, but mincore() and walk_page_range() do not check it.
So if we use mincore() on a hugepage on x86 machine, the hugepage memory
is leaked as shown below. This patch fixes it by extending mincore()
system call to support hugepages.
Details
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My test program (leak_mincore) works as follows:
- creat() and mmap() a file on hugetlbfs (file size is 200MB == 100 hugepages,)
- read()/write() something on it,
- call mincore() for first ten pages and printf() the values of *vec
- munmap() and unlink() the file on hugetlbfs
Without my patch
----------------
$ cat /proc/meminfo| grep "HugePage"
HugePages_Total: 1000
HugePages_Free: 1000
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
$ ./leak_mincore
vec[0] 0
vec[1] 0
vec[2] 0
vec[3] 0
vec[4] 0
vec[5] 0
vec[6] 0
vec[7] 0
vec[8] 0
vec[9] 0
$ cat /proc/meminfo |grep "HugePage"
HugePages_Total: 1000
HugePages_Free: 999
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
$ ls /hugetlbfs/
$
Return values in *vec from mincore() are set to 0, while the hugepage
should be in memory, and 1 hugepage is still accounted as used while
there is no file on hugetlbfs.
With my patch
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$ cat /proc/meminfo| grep "HugePage"
HugePages_Total: 1000
HugePages_Free: 1000
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
$ ./leak_mincore
vec[0] 1
vec[1] 1
vec[2] 1
vec[3] 1
vec[4] 1
vec[5] 1
vec[6] 1
vec[7] 1
vec[8] 1
vec[9] 1
$ cat /proc/meminfo |grep "HugePage"
HugePages_Total: 1000
HugePages_Free: 1000
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
$ ls /hugetlbfs/
$
Return value in *vec set to 1 and no memory leaks.
[[email protected]: cleanup]
[[email protected]: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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