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mm: hugetlb: initialize PG_reserved for tail pages of gigantic compound pages
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:46:56 +0000 (13:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 04:35:52 +0000 (21:35 -0700)
commitd362de3d36e30eb9d9dc1d02e982d485e4f9a418
tree5c44e6a22937b40b7fcf86fcd7c8cb08a50b633a
parent17575977172857707735f0fba8a718ea3d4b5552
mm: hugetlb: initialize PG_reserved for tail pages of gigantic compound pages

Commit 251f9de74ce8 ("kvm: optimize away THP checks in
kvm_is_mmio_pfn()") introduced a memory leak when KVM is run on gigantic
compound pages.

That commit depends on the assumption that PG_reserved is identical for
all head and tail pages of a compound page.  So that if get_user_pages
returns a tail page, we don't need to check the head page in order to
know if we deal with a reserved page that requires different
refcounting.

The assumption that PG_reserved is the same for head and tail pages is
certainly correct for THP and regular hugepages, but gigantic hugepages
allocated through bootmem don't clear the PG_reserved on the tail pages
(the clearing of PG_reserved is done later only if the gigantic hugepage
is freed).

This patch corrects the gigantic compound page initialization so that we
can retain the optimization in 251f9de74ce8.  The cacheline was already
modified in order to set PG_tail so this won't affect the boot time of
large memory systems.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment layout and grammar]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: andy123 <ajs124.ajs124@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c