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Commit ef5a22be authored by Andrea Arcangeli's avatar Andrea Arcangeli Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: hugetlb: initialize PG_reserved for tail pages of gigantic compound pages

Commit 11feeb49 ("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 11feeb49

.  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: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarandy123 <ajs124.ajs124@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRik 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: default avatarRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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