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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2015-02-11 15:26:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-11 17:06:04 -0800
commitb30fe6c7ced70f62862c3d09357e7e8084e98d9f (patch)
tree317c0298b2111b342e1ff031b5da5aad2b894c00 /kernel/fork.c
parentdc6c9a35b66b520cf67e05d8ca60ebecad3b0479 (diff)
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: 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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c99098c52641..66e19c251581 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -606,6 +606,14 @@ static void check_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
printk(KERN_ALERT "BUG: Bad rss-counter state "
"mm:%p idx:%d val:%ld\n", mm, i, x);
}
+
+ if (atomic_long_read(&mm->nr_ptes))
+ pr_alert("BUG: non-zero nr_ptes on freeing mm: %ld\n",
+ atomic_long_read(&mm->nr_ptes));
+ if (mm_nr_pmds(mm))
+ pr_alert("BUG: non-zero nr_pmds on freeing mm: %ld\n",
+ mm_nr_pmds(mm));
+
#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && !USE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS
VM_BUG_ON_MM(mm->pmd_huge_pte, mm);
#endif