On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 11:28 -0800, Matt Wilson wrote: > From: Matt Rushton <[email protected]> > > Currently shrink_free_pagepool() is called before the pages used for > persistent grants are released via free_persistent_gnts(). This > results in a memory leak when a VBD that uses persistent grants is > torn down.
This may well be the explanation for the memory leak I was observing on ARM last night. I'll give it a go and let you know. > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> > Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <[email protected]> > Cc: Ian Campbell <[email protected]> > Cc: David Vrabel <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: Anthony Liguori <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Matt Rushton <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c > b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c > index 6620b73..30ef7b3 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c > +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c > @@ -625,9 +625,6 @@ purge_gnt_list: > print_stats(blkif); > } > > - /* Since we are shutting down remove all pages from the buffer */ > - shrink_free_pagepool(blkif, 0 /* All */); > - > /* Free all persistent grant pages */ > if (!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&blkif->persistent_gnts)) > free_persistent_gnts(blkif, &blkif->persistent_gnts, > @@ -636,6 +633,9 @@ purge_gnt_list: > BUG_ON(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&blkif->persistent_gnts)); > blkif->persistent_gnt_c = 0; > > + /* Since we are shutting down remove all pages from the buffer */ > + shrink_free_pagepool(blkif, 0 /* All */); > + > if (log_stats) > print_stats(blkif); > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
