On 23.01.14 20:28, Matt Wilson wrote:
> From: Matt Rushton <mrush...@amazon.com>
> 
> Currently shrink_free_pagepool() is called before the pages used for
> persistent grants are released via free_persistent_gnts(). This
> results in a memory leak when a VBD that uses persistent grants is
> torn down.

This memory leak was introduced with commit
c6cc142dac52e62e1e8a2aff5de1300202b96c66 xen-blkback: use balloon pages
for all mappings

Christoph

> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com>
> Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger....@citrix.com>
> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: xen-de...@lists.xen.org
> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@amazon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Rushton <mrush...@amazon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <m...@amazon.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c 
> b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> index 6620b73..30ef7b3 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
> @@ -625,9 +625,6 @@ purge_gnt_list:
>                       print_stats(blkif);
>       }
>  
> -     /* Since we are shutting down remove all pages from the buffer */
> -     shrink_free_pagepool(blkif, 0 /* All */);
> -
>       /* Free all persistent grant pages */
>       if (!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&blkif->persistent_gnts))
>               free_persistent_gnts(blkif, &blkif->persistent_gnts,
> @@ -636,6 +633,9 @@ purge_gnt_list:
>       BUG_ON(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&blkif->persistent_gnts));
>       blkif->persistent_gnt_c = 0;
>  
> +     /* Since we are shutting down remove all pages from the buffer */
> +     shrink_free_pagepool(blkif, 0 /* All */);
> +
>       if (log_stats)
>               print_stats(blkif);
>  
> 

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