RE: + mm-fix-false-positive-warning-on-exit-due-mm_nr_pmdsmm.patch added to -mm tree

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>]

akpm@ wrote:
> 
> The patch titled
>      Subject: mm: fix false-positive warning on exit due mm_nr_pmds(mm)
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      mm-fix-false-positive-warning-on-exit-due-mm_nr_pmdsmm.patch
> 
> This patch should soon appear at
>     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-false-positive-warning-on-exit-due-mm_nr_pmdsmm.patch
> and later at
>     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-false-positive-warning-on-exit-due-mm_nr_pmdsmm.patch
> 
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Subject: mm: fix false-positive warning on exit due mm_nr_pmds(mm)
> 
> The problem is that we check nr_ptes/nr_pmds in exit_mmap() which happens
> *before* pgd_free().  And if an arch does pte/pmd allocation in
> pgd_alloc() and frees them in pgd_free() we see offset in counters by the
> time of the checks.
> 
> We tried to workaround this by offsetting expected counter value according
> to FIRST_USER_ADDRESS for both nr_pte and nr_pmd in exit_mmap().  But it
> doesn't work in some cases:
> 
> 1. ARM with LPAE enabled also has non-zero USER_PGTABLES_CEILING, but
>    upper addresses occupied with huge pmd entries, so the trick with
>    offsetting expected counter value will get really ugly: we will have
>    to apply it nr_pmds, but not nr_ptes.
> 
> 2. Metag has non-zero FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, but doesn't do allocation
>    pte/pmd page tables allocation in pgd_alloc(), just setup a pgd entry
>    which is allocated at boot and shared accross all processes.
> 
> The proposal is to move the check to check_mm() which happens *after*
> pgd_free() and do proper accounting during pgd_alloc() and pgd_free()
> which would bring counters to zero if nothing leaked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Reported-by: Tyler Baker <tyler.baker@linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---

Small fix up for the patch.