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From: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	<kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Fix memory leaks from stage2 pagetable
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 13:41:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YpZTS5R+3cisLCzl@qian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220531170157.GC25631@willie-the-truck>

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 06:01:58PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Have you spotted any pattern for when the leak occurs? How are you
> terminating the guest?

It just to send a SIGTERM to the qemu-system-aarch64 process. Origially,
right after sending the signal, it will remove_id/unbind from the vfio-pci
and then bind to the original (ixgbe) driver. However, since the process
might take a while to clean off itself, the bind might failed with -EBUSY.
I could reproduce it a few times one day while was unable to do so some
other days.

Later, we changed the code to make sure the process is disappeard first and
then remove_id/bind/unbind. Apparently, it make harder to reproduce if not
totally eliminate it.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-31 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-26 20:39 [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Fix memory leaks from stage2 pagetable Qian Cai
2022-05-31 16:57 ` Will Deacon
2022-05-31 17:01   ` Will Deacon
2022-05-31 17:41     ` Qian Cai [this message]
2022-05-31 17:23   ` Qian Cai

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