Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:51:44 -0800
From:      Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com>
To:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sbp_targ memory leak
Message-ID:  <478E9890.20700@miralink.com>
In-Reply-To: <626eb4530801161446g7467c9cew59bd65cea68b8ed6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <476610E5.2060108@miralink.com>	 <626eb4530712162258s4dfe1448o1102f20a623d3f95@mail.gmail.com>	 <476696C4.60408@miralink.com>	 <626eb4530712182320q237c344crd309893a82fe8ef8@mail.gmail.com>	 <476B13F4.5050409@miralink.com>	 <626eb4530712201727n3fc0d33aq6e6b44603b5d77f2@mail.gmail.com>	 <478E2B53.7070107@miralink.com> <626eb4530801161446g7467c9cew59bd65cea68b8ed6@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
> Thanks for digging out the problem.
> I did not suppose multiple CTIO's for an ATIO so that your guess
> should be right.
>
> I'm sorry that I will be busy until mid of Feb.
> I'd like to merge your fixes to -current in a few month.
>
> I appreciate if you would do the following:
> - test on -current and make a patch for -current.
> - split the patch for each fix
>   (a version control system or ports/devel/quilt may be useful)
> - non-reversed patch
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Jan 17, 2008 1:05 AM, Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks for the test.
>>> I'll look into the page_table problem this weekend.
>>> Sorry for late response.
>>>
>>> On 12/21/07, Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I think you are right and page table is not freed when CAM_SEND_STATUS
>>>>> is not set.
>>>>> Maybe we should always free page tables if refcont == 0 rather than
>>>>> free in sbp_targ_send_status().
>>>>>
>>>>> You patch is not just adding debug printfs, right?
>>>>> What is the mtx locks for?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/18/07, Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Thanks for the tracking of the problem.
>>>>>>> Could you resend the patch in unified or context diff?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12/17/07, Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> In trying to understand and make sbp_targ functional, I've noted that
>>>>>>>> the code seems to lose track of how many page tables it allocates for
>>>>>>>> any give orbi.  I had to add a lot of debugging code around the
>>>>>>>> malloc/free's to find out what was going on, and I'm not sure what the
>>>>>>>> code is supposed to do in this case.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please review the patch diff at --> http://consultcsg.com/RELENG_6.diff
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And the log at -->http://consultcsg.com/malloc_failure.txt
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>> Diff updated at http://consultcsg.com/RELENG_6.diff
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>> I moved the free around as you suggested and the memory leak does indeed
>>>> go away and there are no further crashes.
>>>> Here is my current diff -->  http://consultcsg.com/RELENG_6.diff .
>>>>
>>>> It does look like the data is not being written or read to the backend
>>>> correctly however.  I.e. the page_table is not being
>>>> setup correctly when more than one read or write is required to service
>>>> an ORB.  Any ideas on how to look into that?
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>
>>>       
>> I seem to have been able to resolve the memory leak, multiple CTIO's and
>> some various lockups with the patch in this PR -->
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=119575
>>
>> This is against RELENG_6 and should be applied.  I noted 3 more issues
>> that I'd like to resolve in the ticket.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>     
>
>
>
>   
Excellent.  I'll get on it.  Probably, it will be around 4 patches?

Sean



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?478E9890.20700>