Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755742Ab0BORAY (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:00:24 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:41383 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755663Ab0BORAW (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:00:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4B797D93.5090307@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:00:03 -0500 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Friesen CC: Minchan Kim , KOSAKI Motohiro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org, Balbir Singh Subject: Re: tracking memory usage/leak in "inactive" field in /proc/meminfo? References: <4B71927D.6030607@nortel.com> <20100210093140.12D9.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <4B72E74C.9040001@nortel.com> <28c262361002101645g3fd08cc7t6a72d27b1f94db62@mail.gmail.com> <4B74524D.8080804@nortel.com> <28c262361002111838q7db763feh851a9bea4fdd9096@mail.gmail.com> <4B7504D2.1040903@nortel.com> <4B796D31.7030006@nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <4B796D31.7030006@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 24 On 02/15/2010 10:50 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: > Looking at the code, it looks like page_remove_rmap() clears the > Anonpage flag and removes it from NR_ANON_PAGES, and the caller is > responsible for removing it from the LRU. Is that right? Nope. > I'll keep digging in the code, but does anyone know where the removal > from the LRU is supposed to happen in the above code paths? Removal from the LRU is done from the page freeing code, on the final free of the page. It appears you have code somewhere that increments the reference count on user pages and then forgets to lower it afterwards. -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/