Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:44:11 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jan Stancek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/1] mm/hugetlb: fix huge page reservation leak in private mapping error paths |
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----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Kravetz" <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> > To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Naoya Horiguchi" <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>, "Michal > Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>, "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>, "Hillf Danton" > <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>, "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, "Jan Stancek" <jstancek@redhat.com>, "Mike > Kravetz" <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> > Sent: Thursday, 20 October, 2016 5:11:16 AM > Subject: [PATCH 0/1] mm/hugetlb: fix huge page reservation leak in private mapping error paths > > This issue was discovered by Jan Stancek as described in > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57FF7BB4.1070202@redhat.com > > Error paths in hugetlb_cow() and hugetlb_no_page() do not properly clean > up reservation entries when freeing a newly allocated huge page. This > issue was introduced with commit 67961f9db8c4 ("mm/hugetlb: fix huge page > reserve accounting for private mappings). That commit uses the information > in private mapping reserve maps to determine if a reservation was already > consumed. This is important in the case of hole punch and truncate as the > pages are released, but reservation entries are not restored. > > This patch restores the reserve entries in hugetlb_cow and hugetlb_no_page > such that reserve entries are consistent with the global reservation count. > > The huge page reservation code is quite hard to follow, and this patch > makes it even more complex. One thought I had was to change the way > hole punch and truncate work so that private mapping pages are not thrown > away. This would eliminate the need for this patch as well as 67961f9db8c4. > It would change the existing semantics (as seen by the user) in this area, > but I believe the documentation (man pages) say the behavior is unspecified. > This could be a future change as well as rewriting the existing reservation > code to make it easier to understand/maintain. Thoughts? > > In any case, this patch addresses the immediate issue.
Mike,
Just to confirm, I ran this patch on my setup (without the patch from Aneesh) with libhugetlbfs testsuite in loop for several hours. There were no ENOMEM/OOM failures, I did not observe resv leak after it finished.
Regards, Jan
> > Mike Kravetz (1): > mm/hugetlb: fix huge page reservation leak in private mapping error > paths > > mm/hugetlb.c | 66 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) > > -- > 2.7.4 > >
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