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We have an application with a lot of threads that use a shared mmap backed by tmpfs mounted with -o huge=within_size. This application started leaking loads of huge pages when we upgraded to a recent kernel. Using the page ref tracepoints and a BPF program written by Tejun Heo we were able to determine that these pages would have multiple refcounts from the page fault path, but when it came to unmap time we wouldn't drop the number of refs we had added from the faults. I wrote a reproducer that mmap'ed a file backed by tmpfs with -o huge=always, and then spawned 20 threads all looping faulting random offsets in this map, while using madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) randomly for huge page aligned ranges. This very quickly reproduced the problem. The problem here is that we check for the case that we have multiple threads faulting in a range that was previously unmapped. One thread maps the PMD, the other thread loses the race and then returns 0. However at this point we already have the page, and we are no longer putting this page into the processes address space, and so we leak the page. We actually did the correct thing prior to |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.