On 10/10/2013 12:12 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
11feeb498086a3a5907b8148bdf1786a9b18fc55 introduced a memory leak when
KVM is run on gigantic compound pages.
11feeb498086a3a5907b8148bdf1786a9b18fc55 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
11feeb498086a3a5907b8148bdf1786a9b18fc55. The cacheline was already
modified in order to set PG_tail so this won't affect the boot time of
large memory systems.
Reported-by: andy123 <ajs124.ajs...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
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