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mm: free compound page with correct order
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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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yuzhaogoogle authored and torvalds committed Oct 29, 2014
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions mm/huge_memory.c
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Expand Up @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static struct page *get_huge_zero_page(void)
preempt_disable();
if (cmpxchg(&huge_zero_page, NULL, zero_page)) {
preempt_enable();
__free_page(zero_page);
__free_pages(zero_page, compound_order(zero_page));
goto retry;
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_huge_zero_page_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
if (atomic_cmpxchg(&huge_zero_refcount, 1, 0) == 1) {
struct page *zero_page = xchg(&huge_zero_page, NULL);
BUG_ON(zero_page == NULL);
__free_page(zero_page);
__free_pages(zero_page, compound_order(zero_page));
return HPAGE_PMD_NR;
}

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