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Revision b0b9b3df27d100a975b4e8818f35382b64a5e35c authored by Hugh Dickins on 07 January 2017, 23:37:31 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 08 January 2017, 01:49:33 UTC
4.10-rc loadtest (even on x86, and even without THPCache) fails with "fork: Cannot allocate memory" or some such; and /proc/meminfo shows PageTables growing. Commit 953c66c2b22a ("mm: THP page cache support for ppc64") that got merged in rc1 removed the freeing of an unused preallocated pagetable after do_fault_around() has called map_pages(). This is usually a good optimization, so that the followup doesn't have to reallocate one; but it's not sufficient to shift the freeing into alloc_set_pte(), since there are failure cases (most commonly VM_FAULT_RETRY) which never reach finish_fault(). Check and free it at the outer level in do_fault(), then we don't need to worry in alloc_set_pte(), and can restore that to how it was (I cannot find any reason to pte_free() under lock as it was doing). And fix a separate pagetable leak, or crash, introduced by the same change, that could only show up on some ppc64: why does do_set_pmd()'s failure case attempt to withdraw a pagetable when it never deposited one, at the same time overwriting (so leaking) the vmf->prealloc_pte? Residue of an earlier implementation, perhaps? Delete it. Fixes: 953c66c2b22a ("mm: THP page cache support for ppc64") Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: b0b9b3df27d100a975b4e8818f35382b64a5e35c authored by Hugh Dickins on 07 January 2017, 23:37:31 UTC
mm: stop leaking PageTables
mm: stop leaking PageTables
Tip revision: b0b9b3d
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