From: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Cc: minchan@kernel.org, bob.liu@oracle.com, weijie.yang.kh@gmail.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when invalidate and reclaim occur concurrently
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:28:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909162815.GA4701@variantweb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000801ceaac0$8d1f6210$a75e2630$%yang@samsung.com>
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 01:16:45PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> Consider the following scenario:
> thread 0: reclaim entry x (get refcount, but not call zswap_get_swap_cache_page)
> thread 1: call zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page to invalidate entry x.
> finished, entry x and its zbud is not freed as its refcount != 0
> now, the swap_map[x] = 0
> thread 0: now call zswap_get_swap_cache_page
> swapcache_prepare return -ENOENT because entry x is not used any more
> zswap_get_swap_cache_page return ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NOMEM
> zswap_writeback_entry do nothing except put refcount
> Now, the memory of zswap_entry x and its zpage leak.
>
> Modify:
> - check the refcount in fail path, free memory if it is not referenced.
> - use ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_FAIL instead of ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NOMEM as the fail path
> can be not only caused by nomem but also by invalidate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Thanks!
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Seth
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From: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Cc: minchan@kernel.org, bob.liu@oracle.com, weijie.yang.kh@gmail.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when invalidate and reclaim occur concurrently
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:28:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909162815.GA4701@variantweb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000801ceaac0$8d1f6210$a75e2630$%yang@samsung.com>
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 01:16:45PM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote:
> Consider the following scenario:
> thread 0: reclaim entry x (get refcount, but not call zswap_get_swap_cache_page)
> thread 1: call zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page to invalidate entry x.
> finished, entry x and its zbud is not freed as its refcount != 0
> now, the swap_map[x] = 0
> thread 0: now call zswap_get_swap_cache_page
> swapcache_prepare return -ENOENT because entry x is not used any more
> zswap_get_swap_cache_page return ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NOMEM
> zswap_writeback_entry do nothing except put refcount
> Now, the memory of zswap_entry x and its zpage leak.
>
> Modify:
> - check the refcount in fail path, free memory if it is not referenced.
> - use ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_FAIL instead of ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NOMEM as the fail path
> can be not only caused by nomem but also by invalidate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>
Thanks!
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Seth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-09 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 5:16 [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when invalidate and reclaim occur concurrently Weijie Yang
2013-09-06 5:16 ` Weijie Yang
2013-09-06 6:31 ` Bob Liu
2013-09-06 6:31 ` Bob Liu
2013-09-09 16:28 ` Seth Jennings [this message]
2013-09-09 16:28 ` Seth Jennings
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