From: Yu Zhao Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:50:26 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm: free compound page with correct order X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.19/fixes-not-urgent-part1~39^2~16 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5ddacbe92b806cd5b4f8f154e8e46ac267fff55c;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Bob Liu Cc: [3.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed