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mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Thu, 3 May 2012 05:43:46 +0000 (15:43 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 3 May 2012 05:46:28 +0000 (15:46 +1000)
commit9f645c61ba1a21a2959f91b78975120755212786
treef881e5c32427d2c0b5adc3b784d6105e5d2e8d1a
parentc7f89b6880ad12fe3370cc54a92c90149db9d2a3
mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec

mm->rss_stat counters have per-task delta: task->rss_stat.  Before
changing task->mm pointer the kernel must flush this delta with
sync_mm_rss().

do_exit() already calls sync_mm_rss() to flush the rss-counters before
committing the rss statistics into task->signal->maxrss, taskstats, audit
and other stuff.  Unfortunately the kernel does this before calling
mm_release(), which can call put_user() for processing
task->clear_child_tid.  So at this point we can trigger page-faults and
task->rss_stat becomes non-zero again.  As a result mm->rss_stat becomes
inconsistent and check_mm() will print something like this:

| BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88020813c380 idx:1 val:-1
| BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88020813c380 idx:2 val:1

This patch moves sync_mm_rss() into mm_release(), and moves mm_release()
out of do_exit() and calls it earlier.  After mm_release() there should be
no pagefaults.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/exec.c
kernel/exit.c
kernel/fork.c