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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PM / Hibernation: Fix *massive* memory leak at early exits in hibernation
On 11/23/2011 02:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> On 11/22/2011 05:15 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> On Mon 2011-11-21 23:25:39, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> On Monday, November 21, 2011, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>>>>> At some of the early exit points during hibernation (exiting either due
>>>>> to failure or after a successful hibernation test, the memory pre-allocated
>>>>> for hibernation is not freed up. And this is *very* serious, because, during
>>>>> pre-allocation, it could have allocated upto a few *gigabytes* of memory!
>>>>> And hence, if a hibernation fails or even if we run some hibernation tests
>>>>> using the 'pm_test' framework, the system is rendered unstable due to memory
>>>>> becoming signifantly lower. Fix this bug.
>>>>
>>>> While the observation is valid, I'd prefer to do something like the patch
>>>> below.
>>>
>>> The code slowly becomes goto maze :-(.
>>>
>>
>> I agree.. It is already quite a mess.
>>
>>>> @@ -357,12 +357,14 @@ int hibernation_snapshot(int platform_mo
>>>> * successful freezer test.
>>>> */
>>>> freezer_test_done = true;
>>>> - goto Close;
>>>> + goto Cleanup;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> error = dpm_prepare(PMSG_FREEZE);
>>>> - if (error)
>>>> - goto Complete_devices;
>>>> + if (error) {
>>>> + dpm_complete(msg);
>>>> + goto Cleanup;
>>>> + }
>>>
>>> Perhaps dpm_prepare should be changed to clean after itself in the
>>> error case? That is the normal convention AFAICT....
>>>
>>
>> If the intention here is to merely clean up hibernation_snapshot() code,
>> I would not prefer to change the behaviour of dpm_prepare(), considering
>> things like, what parameter should we pass to dpm_complete(); is the
>> resultant behaviour change in dpm_suspend_start() correct or not; what
>> happens to all the code that uses the nice pair: dpm_suspend_start() and
>> dpm_resume_end() and so on.
>>
>> Perhaps there are bigger issues involved there, since I observed on a brief
>> look that the current code doesn't seem to strictly follow the above
>> convention that whoever called dpm_prepare() should call dpm_complete()
>> upon failure. Or may be its doing the right thing.. I don't know.
>>
>> But anyway, the good news is, even without changing dpm_prepare()'s
>> behaviour, we can clean up quite a bit of code in hibernation_snapshot(),
>> as it is.
>>
>> The first patch below does the cleanup, the second patch fixes the memory
>> leak and applies on top of the first patch.
>
> Wait, wait. These changes can be made in the 3.3 merge window, while I'd
> like the fix the bug _now_.
>
> Does anyone have any _technical_ problem with my patch posted previously
> in this thread?
>

Technically, your patch is fine :-)

Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks,
Srivatsa S. Bhat



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