linux/mm
Hugh Dickins b0b9b3df27 mm: stop leaking PageTables
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 953c66c2b2 ("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: 953c66c2b2 ("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>
2017-01-07 17:49:33 -08:00
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kasan
backing-dev.c
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c
cleancache.c
cma.c
cma.h
cma_debug.c
compaction.c
debug.c
debug_page_ref.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c mm/filemap: fix parameters to test_bit() 2016-12-29 14:46:39 -08:00
frame_vector.c
frontswap.c
gup.c
highmem.c
huge_memory.c
hugetlb.c
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug
khugepaged.c
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
list_lru.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile
memblock.c
memcontrol.c
memory-failure.c mm: Use owner_priv bit for PageSwapCache, valid when PageSwapBacked 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
memory.c mm: stop leaking PageTables 2017-01-07 17:49:33 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
memtest.c
migrate.c mm: Use owner_priv bit for PageSwapCache, valid when PageSwapBacked 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page-writeback.c
page_alloc.c
page_counter.c
page_ext.c
page_idle.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page_owner.c
page_poison.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
shmem.c
slab.c
slab.h
slab_common.c
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap.c mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
swap_cgroup.c
swap_state.c
swapfile.c
truncate.c mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate 2016-12-26 20:29:24 -08:00
usercopy.c
userfaultfd.c
util.c
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c
workingset.c
z3fold.c
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c
zswap.c