From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Fix leaks in pagetable freeing
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:23:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130814202350.GA3493@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130615161614.2107.41044.stgit@bling.home>
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:27:19AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> At best the current code only seems to free the leaf pagetables and
> the root. If you're unlucky enough to have a large gap (like any
> QEMU guest with more than 3G of memory), only the first chunk of leaf
> pagetables are freed (plus the root). This is a massive memory leak.
> This patch re-writes the pagetable freeing function to use a
> recursive algorithm and manages to not only free all the pagetables,
> but does it without any apparent performance loss versus the current
> broken version.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Applied to iommu/fixes, thanks Alex. Will send this for v3.11 after a
couple of days in next.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-14 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-15 16:27 Alex Williamson
2013-07-24 15:25 ` Alex Williamson
2013-08-06 16:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-08-14 20:23 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2013-10-02 8:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-05 23:41 ` Greg KH
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