Re: mlx5 XDP redirect leaking memory on kernel 6.3

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Gi Jesper,
On Thu, 2023-07-13 at 11:20 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Hi Dragos,
> 
> Below you promised to work on a fix for XDP redirect memory leak...
> What is the status?
> 
The fix got merged into net a week ago:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core?id=7abd955a58fb0fcd4e756fa2065c03ae488fcfa7

Just forgot to follow up on this thread. Sorry about that...

Thanks,
Dragos

> On 23/05/2023 18.35, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2023-05-23 at 17:55 +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > > 
> > > When the mlx5 driver runs an XDP program doing XDP_REDIRECT, then memory
> > > is getting leaked. Other XDP actions, like XDP_DROP, XDP_PASS and XDP_TX
> > > works correctly. I tested both redirecting back out same mlx5 device and
> > > cpumap redirect (with XDP_PASS), which both cause leaking.
> > > 
> > > After removing the XDP prog, which also cause the page_pool to be
> > > released by mlx5, then the leaks are visible via the page_pool periodic
> > > inflight reports. I have this bpftrace[1] tool that I also use to detect
> > > the problem faster (not waiting 60 sec for a report).
> > > 
> > >    [1]
> > > https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-project/blob/master/areas/mem/bpftrace/page_pool_track_shutdown01.bt
> > > 
> > > I've been debugging and reading through the code for a couple of days,
> > > but I've not found the root-cause, yet. I would appreciate new ideas
> > > where to look and fresh eyes on the issue.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > To Lin, it looks like mlx5 uses PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG, and my current
> > > suspicion is that mlx5 driver doesn't fully release the bias count (hint
> > > see MLX5E_PAGECNT_BIAS_MAX).
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the report Jesper. Incidentally I've just picked up this issue
> > today
> > as well.
> > 
> > On XDP redirect and tx, the page is set to skip the bias counter release
> > with
> > the expectation that page_pool_put_defragged_page will be called from [1].
> > But,
> > as I found out now, during XDP redirect only one fragment of the page is
> > released in xdp core [2]. This is where the leak is coming from.
> > 
> > We'll provide a fix soon.
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xdp.c#n665
> > 
> > [2]
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/tree/net/core/xdp.c#n390
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dragos
> > 
> > 
> 





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