mm: free compound page with correct order
authorYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:50:26 +0000 (14:50 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:33:14 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
commit5ddacbe92b806cd5b4f8f154e8e46ac267fff55c
tree45394bb991b7403f73ce540ce9add87fa874f350
parentf601de204465048bdf0d5537f630729622ebc3a6
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 <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c