From: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: pda_init: fix memory leak with CPU_HOTPLUG
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:36:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080801143611.GK5466@alberich.amd.com> (raw)
pda->irqstackptr is allocated whenever a CPU is set online.
But it is never freed (or did I miss something?).
This results in a memory leak of 16 KByte for each CPU offline/online
cycle.
Fix is to allocate pda->irqstackptr only once.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
The leak is not a big deal for normal CPU hotplug usage.
But when doing lots of CPU offline/online-cycles during stress tests
this becomes significant.
Patch is against Linus' git-tree (v2.6.27-rc1-157-gf164ca9).
Regards,
Andreas
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c
index dd6e3f1..c941397 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c
@@ -493,17 +493,20 @@ void pda_init(int cpu)
/* others are initialized in smpboot.c */
pda->pcurrent = &init_task;
pda->irqstackptr = boot_cpu_stack;
+ pda->irqstackptr += IRQSTACKSIZE - 64;
} else {
- pda->irqstackptr = (char *)
- __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, IRQSTACK_ORDER);
- if (!pda->irqstackptr)
- panic("cannot allocate irqstack for cpu %d", cpu);
+ if (!pda->irqstackptr) {
+ pda->irqstackptr = (char *)
+ __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, IRQSTACK_ORDER);
+ if (!pda->irqstackptr)
+ panic("cannot allocate irqstack for cpu %d",
+ cpu);
+ pda->irqstackptr += IRQSTACKSIZE - 64;
+ }
if (pda->nodenumber == 0 && cpu_to_node(cpu) != NUMA_NO_NODE)
pda->nodenumber = cpu_to_node(cpu);
}
-
- pda->irqstackptr += IRQSTACKSIZE-64;
}
char boot_exception_stacks[(N_EXCEPTION_STACKS - 1) * EXCEPTION_STKSZ +
--
1.5.6.3
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2008-08-01 14:36 Andreas Herrmann [this message]
2008-08-14 9:14 ` [PATCH] x86: pda_init: fix memory leak with CPU_HOTPLUG Andrew Morton
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