The patch titled Subject: mm: don't account memmap on failure has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-dont-account-memmap-on-failure.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-dont-account-memmap-on-failure.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: don't account memmap on failure Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 21:19:28 +0000 When in alloc_vmemmap_page_list() memmap is failed to allocate, do not account, the memory is going to be release at the function exit. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240807211929.3433304-3-pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information") Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c~mm-dont-account-memmap-on-failure +++ a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c @@ -392,13 +392,10 @@ static int alloc_vmemmap_page_list(unsig for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { page = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp_mask, 0); - if (!page) { - mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP, i); + if (!page) goto out; - } list_add(&page->lru, list); } - mod_node_page_state(NODE_DATA(nid), NR_MEMMAP, nr_pages); return 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-update-the-memmap-stat-before-page-is-freed.patch mm-dont-account-memmap-on-failure.patch mm-dont-account-memmap-per-node.patch memcg-increase-the-valid-index-range-for-memcg-stats-v5.patch vmstat-kernel-stack-usage-histogram.patch task_stack-uninline-stack_not_used.patch