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author | Yu Zhao <[email protected]> | 2014-10-29 14:50:26 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2014-10-29 16:33:14 -0700 |
commit | 5ddacbe92b806cd5b4f8f154e8e46ac267fff55c (patch) | |
tree | 45394bb991b7403f73ce540ce9add87fa874f350 /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
parent | f601de204465048bdf0d5537f630729622ebc3a6 (diff) |
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: 97ae17497e99 ("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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