From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm mmu: fix another largepage memory leak
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:20:25 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090219132025.GA29085@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1235042336-20101-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:18:56PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> In the paging_fetch function rmap_remove is called after setting a large
> pte to non-present. This causes rmap_remove to not drop the reference to
> the large page. The result is a memory leak of that page.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> index 7314c09..0f11792 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> @@ -306,9 +306,9 @@ static u64 *FNAME(fetch)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr,
> continue;
>
> if (is_large_pte(*sptep)) {
> + rmap_remove(vcpu->kvm, sptep);
> set_shadow_pte(sptep, shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
> kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
> - rmap_remove(vcpu->kvm, sptep);
> }
>
> if (level == PT_DIRECTORY_LEVEL
> --
ACK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-19 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-19 11:18 [PATCH] kvm mmu: fix another largepage memory leak Joerg Roedel
2009-02-19 13:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2009-02-23 10:55 ` Avi Kivity
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