On 3/17/20 5:25 PM, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> * Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz> [2020-03-17 16:56:04]:
>
>>
>> I wonder why do you get a memory leak while Sachin in the same situation [1]
>> gets a crash? I don't understand anything anymore.
>
> Sachin was testing on linux-next which has Kirill's patch which modifies
> slub to use kmalloc_node instead of kmalloc. While Bharata is testing on
> upstream, which doesn't have this.
Yes, that Kirill's patch was about the memcg shrinker map allocation. But the
patch hunk that Bharata posted as a "hack" that fixes the problem, it follows
that there has to be something else that calls kmalloc_node(node) where node is
one that doesn't have present pages.
He mentions alloc_fair_sched_group() which has:
for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
cfs_rq = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct cfs_rq),
GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
...
se = kzalloc_node(sizeof(struct sched_entity),
GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(i));
I assume one of these structs is 1k and other 512 bytes (rounded) and that for
some possible cpu's cpu_to_node(i) will be 0, which has no present pages. And as
Bharata pasted, node_to_mem_node(0) = 0
So this looks like the same scenario, but it doesn't crash? Is the node 0
actually online here, and/or does it have N_NORMAL_MEMORY state?
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/3381cd91-ab3d-4773-ba04-e7a072a63...@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
>>
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