Re: kmemleak, cpu usage jump out of nowhere

From: Zeno Davatz
Date: Fri Jul 16 2010 - 16:30:05 EST



Am 16.07.2010 um 20:27 schrieb Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> it seems that you are using 32bit kernel. please check if this one help.

Thanks! What RC should I patch? 2.6.35-rc5?

Best
Zeno

> Subject: [PATCH -v3] x86,mm: fix 32bit numa sparsemem
>
> Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx> reported his 32bit numa has problem:
>
> [ 0.000000] Reserving total of 4c00 pages for numa KVA remap
> [ 0.000000] kva_start_pfn ~ 32800 max_low_pfn ~ 375fe
> [ 0.000000] max_pfn = 238000
> [ 0.000000] 8202MB HIGHMEM available.
> [ 0.000000] 885MB LOWMEM available.
> [ 0.000000] mapped low ram: 0 - 375fe000
> [ 0.000000] low ram: 0 - 375fe000
> [ 0.000000] alloc (nid=8 100000 - 7ee00000) (1000000 - ffffffff) 1000 1000 => 34e7000
> [ 0.000000] alloc (nid=8 100000 - 7ee00000) (1000000 - ffffffff) 200 40 => 34c9d80
> [ 0.000000] alloc (nid=0 100000 - 7ee00000) (1000000 - ffffffffffffffff) 180 40 => 34e6140
> [ 0.000000] alloc (nid=1 80000000 - c7e60000) (1000000 - ffffffffffffffff) 240 40 => 80000000
> [ 0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 40000000
> [ 0.000000] IP: [<c2c8cff1>] __alloc_memory_core_early+0x147/0x1d6
> [ 0.000000] *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ff53f000ff00
> ...
> [ 0.000000] Call Trace:
> [ 0.000000] [<c2c8b4f8>] ? __alloc_bootmem_node+0x216/0x22f
> [ 0.000000] [<c2c90c9b>] ? sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node+0x5a/0x10b
> [ 0.000000] [<c2c9149e>] ? sparse_init+0x1dc/0x499
> [ 0.000000] [<c2c79118>] ? paging_init+0x168/0x1df
> [ 0.000000] [<c2c780ff>] ? native_pagetable_setup_start+0xef/0x1bb
>
> looks like it allocate much high address for bootmem.
>
> try to cut limit with get_max_mapped()
>
> -v3: make alloc_bootmem_node could fallback to other node.
> just like old alloc_bootmem_node did
>
> need this patch for 2.6.34 and 2.6.35
>
> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> ---
> mm/bootmem.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
> mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -3634,6 +3634,9 @@ void * __init __alloc_memory_core_early(
> int i;
> void *ptr;
>
> + if (limit > get_max_mapped())
> + limit = get_max_mapped();
> +
> /* need to go over early_node_map to find out good range for node */
> for_each_active_range_index_in_nid(i, nid) {
> u64 addr;
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/bootmem.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/bootmem.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/bootmem.c
> @@ -833,15 +833,24 @@ static void * __init ___alloc_bootmem_no
> void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> unsigned long align, unsigned long goal)
> {
> + void *ptr;
> +
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
> return kzalloc_node(size, GFP_NOWAIT, pgdat->node_id);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM
> - return __alloc_memory_core_early(pgdat->node_id, size, align,
> + ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(pgdat->node_id, size, align,
> + goal, -1ULL);
> + if (ptr)
> + return ptr;
> +
> + ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES, size, align,
> goal, -1ULL);
> #else
> - return ___alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat->bdata, size, align, goal, 0);
> + ptr = ___alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat->bdata, size, align, goal, 0);
> #endif
> +
> + return ptr;
> }
>
> void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node_high(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> @@ -977,14 +986,21 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low(unsign
> void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> unsigned long align, unsigned long goal)
> {
> + void *ptr;
> +
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
> return kzalloc_node(size, GFP_NOWAIT, pgdat->node_id);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM
> - return __alloc_memory_core_early(pgdat->node_id, size, align,
> + ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(pgdat->node_id, size, align,
> + goal, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
> + if (ptr)
> + return ptr;
> + ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES, size, align,
> goal, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
> #else
> - return ___alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat->bdata, size, align,
> + ptr = ___alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat->bdata, size, align,
> goal, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
> #endif
> + return ptr;
> }
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