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author | Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2015-02-12 00:26:53 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-12 02:06:04 +0100 |
commit | b30fe6c7ced70f62862c3d09357e7e8084e98d9f (patch) | |
tree | 317c0298b2111b342e1ff031b5da5aad2b894c00 /mm/page-writeback.c | |
parent | mm: account pmd page tables to the process (diff) | |
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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>
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