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mm: free compound page with correct order
Compound page should be freed by put_page() or free_pages() with correct order. Not doing so will cause tail pages leaked. The compound order can be obtained by compound_order() or use HPAGE_PMD_ORDER in our case. Some people would argue the latter is faster but I prefer the former which is more general. This bug was observed not just on our servers (the worst case we saw is 11G leaked on a 48G machine) but also on our workstations running Ubuntu based distro. $ cat /proc/vmstat | grep thp_zero_page_alloc thp_zero_page_alloc 55 thp_zero_page_alloc_failed 0 This means there is (thp_zero_page_alloc - 1) * (2M - 4K) memory leaked. Fixes: 97ae174 ("thp: implement refcounting for huge zero page") Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Bob Liu <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> [3.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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