Re: [PATCH] memcg: Free spare array to avoid memory leak

On 03/08/2012 07:08 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:13:24PM +0800, Sha Zhengju wrote:

quoted

From: Sha Zhengju<redacted>

When the last event is unregistered, there is no need to keep the spare
array anymore. So free it to avoid memory leak.

It's not a leak. It will be freed on next event register.

Yeah, I noticed that. But what if it is just the last one and no more
event registering ?


Thanks,
Sha

Yeah, we don't have to keep spare if primary is empty. But is it worth to
make code more complicated to save few bytes of memory?

quoted

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju<redacted>

---
  mm/memcontrol.c |    6 ++++++
  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 22d94f5..3c09a84 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c

@@ -4412,6 +4412,12 @@ static void mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
  swap_buffers:
  	/* Swap primary and spare array */
  	thresholds->spare = thresholds->primary;
+	/* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */
+	if (!new) {
+		kfree(thresholds->spare);
+		thresholds->spare = NULL;
+	}
+
  	rcu_assign_pointer(thresholds->primary, new);

  	/* To be sure that nobody uses thresholds */

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