mm: add rss counters consistency check
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:33:48 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:54:55 +0000 (17:54 -0700)
Warn about non-zero rss counters at final mmdrop.

This check will prevent reoccurences of bugs such as that fixed in "mm:
fix rss count leakage during migration".

I didn't hide this check under CONFIG_VM_DEBUG because it rather small and
rss counters cover whole page-table management, so this is a good
invariant.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/fork.c

index c4f38a8..a9e99f3 100644 (file)
@@ -511,6 +511,23 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p)
        return NULL;
 }
 
+static void check_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+       int i;
+
+       for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++) {
+               long x = atomic_long_read(&mm->rss_stat.count[i]);
+
+               if (unlikely(x))
+                       printk(KERN_ALERT "BUG: Bad rss-counter state "
+                                         "mm:%p idx:%d val:%ld\n", mm, i, x);
+       }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+       VM_BUG_ON(mm->pmd_huge_pte);
+#endif
+}
+
 /*
  * Allocate and initialize an mm_struct.
  */
@@ -538,9 +555,7 @@ void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
        mm_free_pgd(mm);
        destroy_context(mm);
        mmu_notifier_mm_destroy(mm);
-#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
-       VM_BUG_ON(mm->pmd_huge_pte);
-#endif
+       check_mm(mm);
        free_mm(mm);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__mmdrop);