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SubjectRe: put page on transparent huge page leaks ?
On 2014-02-21 20:31, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:23:39AM -0600, Jay Cornwall wrote:
>> I'm tracking a possible memory leak in iommu/amd. The driver uses this
>> logic
>> to fault a page in response to a PRI from a device:
>>
>> npages = get_user_pages(fault->state->task, fault->state->mm,
>> fault->address, 1, write, 0, &page, NULL);
>>
>> if (npages == 1)
>> put_page(page);
>> else
>> ...
>>
>> This works correctly when get_user_pages returns a 4KB page. When
>> transparent huge pages are enabled any 2MB page returned by this call
>> appears to leak on process exit. The non-cached memory usage stays
>> elevated
>> by the set of faulted 2MB pages. This behavior is not observed when
>> the
>> exception handler demand faults 2MB pages.
>
> Could you show output of dump_page() on 2M pages for both points?

get_user_pages():
page:ffffea000ffa00c0 count:0 mapcount:1 mapping: (null)
index:0x0
page flags: 0x2fffe0000008000(tail)
// page_count(page)=3 (head page)
put_page():
page:ffffea000ffa00c0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null)
index:0x0
page flags: 0x2fffe0000008000(tail)
// page_count(page)=3 (head page)

Repeat on the same page.

get_user_pages():
page:ffffea000ffa00c0 count:0 mapcount:1 mapping: (null)
index:0x0
page flags: 0x2fffe0000008000(tail)
// page_count(page)=4 (head page)
put_page():
page:ffffea000ffa00c0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null)
index:0x0
page flags: 0x2fffe0000008000(tail)
// page_count(page)=4 (head page)

The head page appears to be leaking a reference. There is *no leak* if
the driver faults the head page directly.

> My guess is that your page is PageTail(). Refcounting for tail pages is
> different: on get_page() we increase *->_mapcount* of tail and increase
> ->_count of relevant head page. ->_count of tail pages should always be
> zero, but it's 3 in your case which is odd.

That's correct, this is a tail page. page_count() references the head
page:

static inline int page_count(struct page *page)
{
return atomic_read(&compound_head(page)->_count);
}

> BTW, I don't see where you take mmap_sem in
> drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_v2.c,
> which is required for gup. Do I miss something?

You're right. I have a patch applied on my local branch to fix this.


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