Re: Regression - locking (all from 2.6.28)

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 12:11 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008165] unreferenced object 0xf6c4daf0 (size 52):
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008170]   comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294893427
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008175]   backtrace:
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008179]     [<c018978c>] kmemleak_alloc+0x17e/0x28e
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008185]     [<c0186b86>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xdc/0xe7
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008190]     [<c01a53bd>] alloc_buffer_head+0x16/0x71
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008196]     [<c01a5b91>] alloc_page_buffers+0x23/0xad
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008200]     [<c01a5fd4>] __getblk+0x192/0x26b
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008205]     [<c01d91f4>] jread+0x105/0x1de
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008209]     [<c01d932b>] do_one_pass+0x5e/0x38c
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008213]     [<c01d96f8>] journal_recover+0x41/0x9d
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008218]     [<c01db8d4>] journal_load+0x47/0x7b
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008221]     [<c01d43d1>] ext3_fill_super+0xe9d/0x144c
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008225]     [<c018d721>] get_sb_bdev+0xfa/0x140
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008231]     [<c01d2070>] ext3_get_sb+0x18/0x1a
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008235]     [<c018c71f>] vfs_kern_mount+0x41/0x7c
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008241]     [<c018c7a8>] do_kern_mount+0x37/0xbe
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008247]     [<c019f0bf>] do_mount+0x5f7/0x630
> > Mar  1 00:06:51 localhost kernel: [   74.008253]     [<c019f167>] sys_mount+0x6f/0xac
> 
> I suspect kmemleak has gone nuts here.

It seems that the buffer_head structure allocated above is stored in
page->private. However, the page structures are no longer scanned in
newer versions of kmemleak. That's the hunk that was removed after
comments about the contiguity of a node's memory:

+     /* mem_map scanning */
+     for_each_online_node(i) {
+             struct page *page, *end;
+
+             page = NODE_MEM_MAP(i);
+             end  = page + NODE_DATA(i)->node_spanned_pages;
+
+             scan_block(page, end, NULL);
+     }

The alternative is to inform kmemleak about the page structures returned
from __alloc_pages_internal() but there would be problems with recursive
calls into kmemleak when it allocates its own data structures.

I'll look at re-adding the hunk above, maybe with some extra checks like
pfn_valid().

> kmemleak has no MAINTAINERS entry, btw.

The entry is called "KERNEL MEMORY LEAK DETECTOR" but it makes sense to
change it to KMEMLEAK.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin