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* Bisected: Massive memory leak in dm-snapshot in 3.1 development introduced
@ 2011-10-23  9:21 Michael Leun
  2011-10-23  9:52 ` Linus Torvalds
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Michael Leun @ 2011-10-23  9:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML, dm-devel, Linus Torvalds, Mikulas Patocka

Hi,

How to reproduce:

lvcreate -L30G -n testsnap vg1 # of course substitute VG as appropriate
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/testsnap bs=2M # to make things clear
lvcreate -L15G -s /dev/vg1/test -n testsnap
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/testsnap bs=2M &
watch free

I noticed roughly 1GB memory vanishing from free / -/+ buffers/cache
per 2GB copied.

Bisecting yielded a6e50b409d3f9e0833e69c3c9cca822e8fa4adbb, reverting
that from git master cures the memory leak

-- 
MfG,

Michael Leun


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* Re: Bisected: Massive memory leak in dm-snapshot in 3.1 development introduced
  2011-10-23  9:21 Bisected: Massive memory leak in dm-snapshot in 3.1 development introduced Michael Leun
@ 2011-10-23  9:52 ` Linus Torvalds
  2011-10-23 13:44   ` Alasdair G Kergon
  2011-10-25 17:45   ` [PATCH] check for mempool memory leaks Mikulas Patocka
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Linus Torvalds @ 2011-10-23  9:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alasdair G Kergon; +Cc: Michael Leun, LKML, dm-devel, Mikulas Patocka

Making sure that Alasdair sees this too (hopefully he picked up on it
from dm-devel, but best send things directly too)

Mikulas, Alasdair? I see the mempool_free() for the "master job", what
about everything else? Does the dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback() perhaps
need to do a

    job->master_job = job;

or similar?

                   Linus

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Michael Leun <ml@newton.leun.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to reproduce:
>
> lvcreate -L30G -n testsnap vg1 # of course substitute VG as appropriate
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/testsnap bs=2M # to make things clear
> lvcreate -L15G -s /dev/vg1/test -n testsnap
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/testsnap bs=2M &
> watch free
>
> I noticed roughly 1GB memory vanishing from free / -/+ buffers/cache
> per 2GB copied.
>
> Bisecting yielded a6e50b409d3f9e0833e69c3c9cca822e8fa4adbb, reverting
> that from git master cures the memory leak
>
> --
> MfG,
>
> Michael Leun
>
>

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* Re: Bisected: Massive memory leak in dm-snapshot in 3.1 development introduced
  2011-10-23  9:52 ` Linus Torvalds
@ 2011-10-23 13:44   ` Alasdair G Kergon
  2011-10-23 14:30     ` Michael Leun
  2011-10-25 17:45   ` [PATCH] check for mempool memory leaks Mikulas Patocka
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alasdair G Kergon @ 2011-10-23 13:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds, Michael Leun
  Cc: Alasdair G Kergon, LKML, dm-devel, Mikulas Patocka

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:52:06PM +0300, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Mikulas, Alasdair? I see the mempool_free() for the "master job", what
> about everything else? Does the dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback() perhaps
> need to do a
> 
>     job->master_job = job;
> 
> or similar?

If you look at the other place that performs that mempool_alloc, it's indeed
present there.

Michael - can you test if this solves the problem?

Alasdair

--- a/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ void *dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc,
 	job->kc = kc;
 	job->fn = fn;
 	job->context = context;
+	job->master_job = job;
 
 	atomic_inc(&kc->nr_jobs);
 

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* Re: Bisected: Massive memory leak in dm-snapshot in 3.1 development introduced
  2011-10-23 13:44   ` Alasdair G Kergon
@ 2011-10-23 14:30     ` Michael Leun
  2011-10-23 20:19       ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Michael Leun @ 2011-10-23 14:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alasdair G Kergon; +Cc: Linus Torvalds, LKML, dm-devel, Mikulas Patocka

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:44:49 +0100
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:52:06PM +0300, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Mikulas, Alasdair? I see the mempool_free() for the "master job",
> > what about everything else? Does the dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback()
> > perhaps need to do a
> > 
> >     job->master_job = job;
> > 
> > or similar?
> 
> If you look at the other place that performs that mempool_alloc, it's
> indeed present there.
> 
> Michael - can you test if this solves the problem?
> 
> Alasdair
> 
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
> @@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ void *dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback(struct
> dm_kcopyd_client *kc, job->kc = kc;
>  	job->fn = fn;
>  	job->context = context;
> +	job->master_job = job;
>  
>  	atomic_inc(&kc->nr_jobs);
>  
> 

Yup, it indeed does.

-- 
MfG,

Michael Leun


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* Re: [dm-devel] Bisected: Massive memory leak in dm-snapshot in 3.1 development introduced
  2011-10-23 14:30     ` Michael Leun
@ 2011-10-23 20:19       ` Alasdair G Kergon
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alasdair G Kergon @ 2011-10-23 20:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds, Michael Leun
  Cc: Alasdair G Kergon, Mikulas Patocka, dm-devel, LKML

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 04:30:42PM +0200, Michael Leun wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:44:49 +0100
> Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Michael - can you test if this solves the problem?

OK, let's go with this patch then.

Linus, you can pull it from here:

  http://people.redhat.com/agk/git/linux-dm for-linus

Alasdair G Kergon (1):
      dm kcopyd: fix job_pool leak

 drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


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* [PATCH] check for mempool memory leaks
  2011-10-23  9:52 ` Linus Torvalds
  2011-10-23 13:44   ` Alasdair G Kergon
@ 2011-10-25 17:45   ` Mikulas Patocka
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mikulas Patocka @ 2011-10-25 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: Alasdair G Kergon, Michael Leun, LKML, dm-devel



On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Making sure that Alasdair sees this too (hopefully he picked up on it
> from dm-devel, but best send things directly too)
> 
> Mikulas, Alasdair? I see the mempool_free() for the "master job", what
> about everything else? Does the dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback() perhaps
> need to do a
> 
>     job->master_job = job;
> 
> or similar?
> 
>                    Linus
> 
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Michael Leun <ml@newton.leun.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How to reproduce:
> >
> > lvcreate -L30G -n testsnap vg1 # of course substitute VG as appropriate
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/testsnap bs=2M # to make things clear
> > lvcreate -L15G -s /dev/vg1/test -n testsnap
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg1/testsnap bs=2M &
> > watch free
> >
> > I noticed roughly 1GB memory vanishing from free / -/+ buffers/cache
> > per 2GB copied.
> >
> > Bisecting yielded a6e50b409d3f9e0833e69c3c9cca822e8fa4adbb, reverting
> > that from git master cures the memory leak
> >
> > --
> > MfG,
> >
> > Michael Leun
> >
> >
> 

BTW. would you like to accept this patch that enables tracking the number 
of objects allocated in a mempool and reporting a warning? So that such 
bugs could be automatically detected in the future?

---

Introduce an option DEBUG_MEMPOOL. It will check that a mempool is empty
when destroying the mempool.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

---
 include/linux/mempool.h |    6 ++++++
 lib/Kconfig.debug       |    8 ++++++++
 mm/mempool.c            |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-3.1-fast/lib/Kconfig.debug
===================================================================
--- linux-3.1-fast.orig/lib/Kconfig.debug	2011-10-25 00:31:56.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.1-fast/lib/Kconfig.debug	2011-10-25 01:18:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -411,6 +411,14 @@ config SLUB_STATS
 	  out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
 	  Try running: slabinfo -DA
 
+config DEBUG_MEMPOOL
+	bool "Check memory leaks in mempools"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+	help
+	  Enable debugging memory leaks in mempools. This options makes
+	  the kernel count the number of objects allocated in a mempool
+	  and check if this number is zero when the mempool is destroyed.
+
 config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
 	bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && !MEMORY_HOTPLUG && \
Index: linux-3.1-fast/mm/mempool.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.1-fast.orig/mm/mempool.c	2011-10-25 00:39:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.1-fast/mm/mempool.c	2011-10-25 01:24:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ mempool_t *mempool_create_node(int min_n
 		kfree(pool);
 		return NULL;
 	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMPOOL
+	atomic_long_set(&pool->nr_allocated, 0);
+#endif
 	spin_lock_init(&pool->lock);
 	pool->min_nr = min_nr;
 	pool->pool_data = pool_data;
@@ -183,7 +186,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_resize);
 void mempool_destroy(mempool_t *pool)
 {
 	/* Check for outstanding elements */
-	BUG_ON(pool->curr_nr != pool->min_nr);
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMPOOL
+	WARN(atomic_long_read(&pool->nr_allocated),
+	     "%ld objects leaked in mempool",
+	     atomic_long_read(&pool->nr_allocated));
+#else
+	WARN_ON(pool->curr_nr != pool->min_nr);
+#endif
 	free_pool(pool);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_destroy);
@@ -217,13 +226,20 @@ void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *pool, gf
 repeat_alloc:
 
 	element = pool->alloc(gfp_temp, pool->pool_data);
-	if (likely(element != NULL))
+	if (likely(element != NULL)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMPOOL
+		atomic_long_inc(&pool->nr_allocated);
+#endif
 		return element;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
 	if (likely(pool->curr_nr)) {
 		element = remove_element(pool);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMPOOL
+		atomic_long_inc(&pool->nr_allocated);
+#endif
 		return element;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
@@ -265,6 +281,11 @@ void mempool_free(void *element, mempool
 	if (unlikely(element == NULL))
 		return;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMPOOL
+	BUG_ON(!atomic_long_read(&pool->nr_allocated));
+	atomic_long_dec(&pool->nr_allocated);
+#endif
+
 	smp_mb();
 	if (pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr) {
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
Index: linux-3.1-fast/include/linux/mempool.h
===================================================================
--- linux-3.1-fast.orig/include/linux/mempool.h	2011-10-25 01:12:13.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.1-fast/include/linux/mempool.h	2011-10-25 01:18:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 #define _LINUX_MEMPOOL_H
 
 #include <linux/wait.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMPOOLS
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
+#endif
 
 struct kmem_cache;
 
@@ -12,6 +15,9 @@ typedef void * (mempool_alloc_t)(gfp_t g
 typedef void (mempool_free_t)(void *element, void *pool_data);
 
 typedef struct mempool_s {
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMPOOL
+	atomic_long_t nr_allocated;
+#endif
 	spinlock_t lock;
 	int min_nr;		/* nr of elements at *elements */
 	int curr_nr;		/* Current nr of elements at *elements */

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