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Author SHA1 Message Date
Geert Uytterhoeven
0ae446e4b9 lib/test_free_pages.c: add basic progress indicators
The test module to check that free_pages() does not leak memory does not
provide any feedback whatsoever its state or progress, but may take some
time on slow machines.  Add the printing of messages upon starting each
phase of the test, and upon completion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201018140445.20972-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15 22:46:16 -08:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
e320d3012d mm/page_alloc.c: fix freeing non-compound pages
Here is a very rare race which leaks memory:

Page P0 is allocated to the page cache.  Page P1 is free.

Thread A                Thread B                Thread C
find_get_entry():
xas_load() returns P0
						Removes P0 from page cache
						P0 finds its buddy P1
			alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 1) returns P0
			P0 has refcount 1
page_cache_get_speculative(P0)
P0 has refcount 2
			__free_pages(P0)
			P0 has refcount 1
put_page(P0)
P1 is not freed

Fix this by freeing all the pages in __free_pages() that won't be freed
by the call to put_page().  It's usually not a good idea to split a page,
but this is a very unlikely scenario.

Fixes: e286781d5f ("mm: speculative page references")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200926213919.26642-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-13 18:38:33 -07:00