Re: 2.6.39-rc4+: Kernel leaking memory during FS scanning, regression?

[Sedat Dilek]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, john stultz wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 23:04 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> > /me suspects hrtimer changes to be the real culprit.
>>
>> I'm not seeing anything on right off, but it does smell like
>> e06383db9ec591696a06654257474b85bac1f8cb would be where such an issue
>> would crop up.
>>
>> Bruno, could you try checking out e06383db9ec, confirming it still
>> occurs (and then maybe seeing if it goes away at e06383db9ec^1)?
>>
>> I'll keep digging in the meantime.
>
> I found the bug already. The problem is that sched_init() calls
> init_rt_bandwidth() which calls hrtimer_init() _BEFORE_
> hrtimers_init() is called.
>
> That was unnoticed so far as the CLOCK id to hrtimer base conversion
> was hardcoded. Now we use a table which is set up at hrtimers_init(),
> so the bandwith hrtimer ends up on CLOCK_REALTIME because the table is
> in the bss.
>
> The patch below fixes this, by providing the table statically rather
> than runtime initialized. Though that whole ordering wants to be
> revisited.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Â Â Â Âtglx
>
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/hrtimer.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/hrtimer.c
> @@ -81,7 +81,11 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer_cpu_base,
> Â Â Â Â}
> Â};
>
> -static int hrtimer_clock_to_base_table[MAX_CLOCKS];
> +static int hrtimer_clock_to_base_table[MAX_CLOCKS] = {
> + Â Â Â [CLOCK_REALTIME] = HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME,
> + Â Â Â [CLOCK_MONOTONIC] = HRTIMER_BASE_MONOTONIC,
> + Â Â Â [CLOCK_BOOTTIME] = HRTIMER_BASE_BOOTTIME,
> +};
>
> Âstatic inline int hrtimer_clockid_to_base(clockid_t clock_id)
> Â{
> @@ -1722,10 +1726,6 @@ static struct notifier_block __cpuinitda
>
> Âvoid __init hrtimers_init(void)
> Â{
> - Â Â Â hrtimer_clock_to_base_table[CLOCK_REALTIME] = HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME;
> - Â Â Â hrtimer_clock_to_base_table[CLOCK_MONOTONIC] = HRTIMER_BASE_MONOTONIC;
> - Â Â Â hrtimer_clock_to_base_table[CLOCK_BOOTTIME] = HRTIMER_BASE_BOOTTIME;
> -
> Â Â Â Âhrtimer_cpu_notify(&hrtimers_nb, (unsigned long)CPU_UP_PREPARE,
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â(void *)(long)smp_processor_id());
> Â Â Â Âregister_cpu_notifier(&hrtimers_nb);
>
>
>

Looks good so far, no stalls or call-traces.

Really stressing with 20+ open tabs in firefox with flash-movie
running in one of them , tar-job, IRC-client etc.
I will run some more tests and collect data and send them later.

- Sedat -

P.S.: Patchset against linux-2.6-rcu.git#sedat.2011.04.23a where 0003
is from [2]

[1] http://git.us.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sedat.2011.04.23a
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/739782/

$ l ../RCU-HOORAY/
insgesamt 40
drwxr-xr-x  2 sd sd  4096 29. Apr 01:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 35 sd sd 20480 29. Apr 01:01 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 sd sd   726 29. Apr 01:01
0001-Revert-rcu-restrict-TREE_RCU-to-SMP-builds-with-PREE.patch
-rw-r--r--  1 sd sd   735 29. Apr 01:01
0002-sched-Add-warning-when-RT-throttling-is-activated.patch
-rw-r--r--  1 sd sd  2376 29. Apr 01:01
0003-2.6.39-rc4-Kernel-leaking-memory-during-FS-scanning-.patch
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