On 05/09/2017 12:55 PM, zhongjiang wrote: > From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Current, when we prepare a huge page to collapse, due to some > reasons, it can fail to collapse. At the moment, we should > release the preallocate huge page. > > Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> Hmm, scratch that, there's no memory leak. The pointer to new_page is stored in *hpage, and put_page() is called all the way up in khugepaged_do_scan(). > --- > mm/khugepaged.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c > index 7cb9c88..586b1f1 100644 > --- a/mm/khugepaged.c > +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c > @@ -1082,6 +1082,8 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, > up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > out_nolock: > trace_mm_collapse_huge_page(mm, isolated, result); > + if (page != NULL && result != SCAN_SUCCEED) > + put_page(new_page); > return; > out: > mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(new_page, memcg, true); > @@ -1555,6 +1557,8 @@ static void collapse_shmem(struct mm_struct *mm, > } > out: > VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&pagelist)); > + if (page != NULL && result != SCAN_SUCCEED) > + put_page(new_page); > /* TODO: tracepoints */ > } > > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>