From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Subject: Bug in tmem: refcount leak leaves zombie saved domains
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:46:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C836731F.17460%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
Dan,
Just doing some save/restore testing on xen-unstable tip, I noticed that:
# xm create ./pv_config
# xm save PV1
Would leave the saved guest as a zombie in the DOMDYING_dead state with no
pages, yet with refcnt=1. This happens absolutely consistently. Just as
consistently, it does not happen when I boot Xen with no-tmem. My conclusion
is that tmem is leaking a domain reference count during domain save. This
doesn't happen if I merely "xm create ...; xm destroy ...".
My pv_config file contains nothing exciting:
kernel = "/nfs/keir/xen/xen64.hg/dist/install/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xenU"
memory = 750
name = "PV1"
vcpus = 2
vif = [ 'mac=00:1a:00:00:01:01' ]
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/VG/Suse10.1_64_1,sda1,w' ]
root = "/dev/sda1 ro xencons=tty"
extra = ""
tsc_native = 1
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'preserve'
The dom{0,U} kernels are tip of linux-2.6.18-xen, default -xen{0,U} configs.
-- Keir
next reply other threads:[~2010-06-10 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-10 9:46 Keir Fraser [this message]
2010-06-10 13:08 ` Bug in tmem: refcount leak leaves zombie saved domains Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-10 15:38 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-10 16:12 ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-10 17:54 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-10 20:06 ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-10 21:43 ` Keir Fraser
2010-06-10 22:34 ` Dan Magenheimer
2010-06-11 7:39 ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-10 16:34 ` Keir Fraser
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