On Sat 16-07-16 23:47:40, Minchan Kim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 09:27:55PM +0200, Jens Rottmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 4.1.y stable commit c5ad33184354260be6d05de57e46a5498692f6d6 (Upstream > > commit 8f182270dfec432e93fae14f9208a6b9af01009f) "mm/swap.c: flush lru > > pvecs on compound page arrival" in 4.1.28 introduces a memory leak. > > > > Simply running > > > > while sleep 0.1; do clear; free; done > > > > shows mem continuously going down, eventually system panics with no > > killable processes left. Using "unxz -t some.xz" instead of sleep brings > > system down within minutes. > > > > Kmemleak did not report anything. Bisect ended at named commit, and > > reverting only this commit is indeed sufficient to fix the leak. Swap > > partition on/off makes no difference. > > > > My set-up: > > i.MX6 (ARM Cortex-A9) dual-core, 2 GB RAM. Kernel sources are from > > git.freescale.com i.e. heavily modified by Freescale for i.MX SoCs, > > kernel.org stable patches up to 4.1.28 manually added. > > > > I tried to reproduce with vanilla 4.1.28, but that wouldn't boot at all > > on my hardware, hangs immediately after "Starting kernel", sorry. > > However there is not a single difference between Freescale and vanilla > > in the whole mm/ subdirectory, so I don't think it's i.MX-specific. I > > didn't cross-check with an x86 system (yet). > > I didn't have 4.1 stable tree in my local so just looked at git web > and found __lru_cache_add has a bug. > > Please change > > static void __lru_cache_add(struct page *page) > { > struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_add_pvec); > > page_cache_get(page); > if (!pagevec_space(pvec) || PageCompound(page)) <== > __pagevec_lru_add(pvec); > put_cpu_var(lru_add_pvec); > } > > with > > static void __lru_cache_add(struct page *page) > { > struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_add_pvec); > > page_cache_get(page); > if (!pagevec_add(pvec, page) || PageCompound(page)) <== > __pagevec_lru_add(pvec); > put_cpu_var(lru_add_pvec); > } > Yes this is it. Steven has reported that last week and Sasha should be aware of that http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714175521.3675e3d6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html