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From: Karim Manaouil <kmanaouil.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:50:35 +0000
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Subject: Re: Debug: mm: meminfo reports 222GiB of AnonPages but sum of RSS in
 ps is barely 400MiB
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 2:15=E2=80=AFPM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com=
> wrote:

> Maybe we have something call mmget(mm) but never mmput(mm)? Are you
> running any OOT drivers or "special" hw?

That's exactly the reason! I was writing some code to count the number
of empty page tables in the system
at any given point in time. I called get_task_mm(), but I forgot to
call mmput() after that, and thus
the memory was never released.

I should have double checked, but thanks to your remark I immediately
recognised the issue and fixed it
(maybe I should have posted the code as well and mentioned that in my
original email).

--
Cheer
Karim