On 04/08/2015 09:15 AM, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
I've noticed on a number of my systems that after shutting down my application that uses huge pages that I'm left with some pages still in HugePages_Rsvd. It is possible that I still have something using huge pages that I'm not aware of but so far my attempts to find anything using huge pages have failed. I've run some simple tests using map_hugetlb.c from the kernel source and can see that pages that have been reserved but not allocated still show up in /proc/<pid>/smaps and /proc/<pid>/numa_maps. Are there any cases where this is not true?
Just a quick question. Are you using hugetlb filesystem(s)? If so, you might want to take a look at files residing in the filesystem(s). As an experiment, I had a program do a simple mmap() of a file in a hugetlb filesystem. The program just created the mapping, and did not actually fault/allocate any huge pages. The result was the reservation (HugePages_Rsvd) of sufficient huge pages to cover the mapping. When the program exited, the reservations remained. If I remove (unlink) the file the reservations will be removed. -- Mike Kravetz -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>