From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Lorenzo Bianconi" <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] page_pool: disable direct recycling based on pool->cpuid on destroy
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:47:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96eb3dce-599c-49c6-b18a-ad3af33f88c4@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240215113905.96817-1-aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:39:05 +0100
> Now that direct recycling is performed basing on pool->cpuid when set,
> memory leaks are possible:
>
> 1. A pool is destroyed.
> 2. Alloc cache is emptied (it's done only once).
> 3. pool->cpuid is still set.
> 4. napi_pp_put_page() does direct recycling basing on pool->cpuid.
> 5. Now alloc cache is not empty, but it won't ever be freed.
>
> In order to avoid that, rewrite pool->cpuid to -1 when unlinking NAPI to
> make sure no direct recycling will be possible after emptying the cache.
> This involves a bit of overhead as pool->cpuid now must be accessed
> via READ_ONCE() to avoid partial reads.
> Rename page_pool_unlink_napi() -> page_pool_disable_direct_recycling()
> to reflect what it actually does and unexport it.
PW says "Changes requested", but I don't see any in the thread, did I
miss something? :D
Thanks,
Olek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-16 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-15 11:39 Alexander Lobakin
2024-02-15 11:57 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-02-15 12:05 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2024-02-15 13:12 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-02-15 13:29 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2024-02-15 13:37 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-02-15 13:45 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-02-15 14:01 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2024-02-16 17:47 ` Alexander Lobakin [this message]
2024-02-19 20:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=96eb3dce-599c-49c6-b18a-ad3af33f88c4@intel.com \
--to=aleksander.lobakin@intel.com \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=edumazet@google.com \
--cc=kuba@kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=lorenzo@kernel.org \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=pabeni@redhat.com \
--cc=toke@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome