Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758535Ab0BRPqF (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:46:05 -0500 Received: from zrtps0kp.nortel.com ([47.140.192.56]:53604 "EHLO zrtps0kp.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758506Ab0BRPqB (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:46:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4B7D5F35.7060700@nortel.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:39:33 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel 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? -- solved 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> <4B797D93.5090307@redhat.com> <4B7ACD4A.10101@nortel.com> <4B7AD207.20604@redhat.com> <4B7B0D75.50808@nortel.com> <4B7B1AA9.9040609@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4B7B1AA9.9040609@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Feb 2010 15:45:42.0642 (UTC) FILETIME=[6D820D20:01CAB0B1] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1107 Lines: 33 On 02/16/2010 04:22 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 02/16/2010 04:26 PM, Chris Friesen wrote: > >> For the backtrace scenario I posted it seems like it might actually be >> release_pages(). There seems to be a plausible call chain: >> >> __ClearPageLRU >> release_pages >> free_pages_and_swap_cache >> tlb_flush_mmu >> tlb_remove_page >> zap_pte_range >> >> Does that seem right? In this case, tlb_remove_page() is called right >> after page_remove_rmap() which ultimately results in clearing the >> PageAnon bit. > > That is right - and pinpoints the fault for the memory leak > on some third party code that fails to release a refcount on > memory pages. I think I've tracked down the source of the problem. Turns out one of our vendors had misapplied a patch which ended up bumping the page count an extra time. Thanks to everyone that helped out. Chris -- 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/