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SubjectRe: [4.7.0rc6] Page Allocation Failures with dm-crypt
On Mon, Jul 11 2016 at  4:31am -0400,
Matthias Dahl <ml_linux-kernel@binary-island.eu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I made a few more tests and here my observations:
>
> - kernels 4.4.8 and 4.5.5 show the same behavior
>
> - the moment dd starts, memory usage spikes rapidly and within a just
> a few seconds has filled up all 32 GiB of RAM
>
> - dd w/ direct i/o works just fine
>
> - mkfs.ext4 unfortunately shows the same behavior as dd w/o direct i/o
> and such makes creation of an ext4 fs on dm-crypt a game of luck
>
> (much more exposed so with e2fsprogs 1.43.1)
>
> I am kind of puzzled that this bug has seemingly gone so long unnoticed
> since it is rather severe and makes dm-crypt unusable to a certain
> degree
> for fs encryption (or at least the initial creation of the fs). Am I
> missing something here or doing something terribly stupid?

Not clear. Certainly haven't had any reports of memory leaks with
dm-crypt. Something must explain the execessive nature of your leak but
it isn't a known issue.

Have you tried running with kmemleak enabled?

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