The patch titled Subject: mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak caused by wrong reserve count has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-caused-by-wrong-reserve-count.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-caused-by-wrong-reserve-count.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-caused-by-wrong-reserve-count.patch 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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak caused by wrong reserve count When dequeue_huge_page_vma() in alloc_huge_page() fails, we fall back to alloc_buddy_huge_page() to directly create a hugepage from the buddy allocator. In that case, however, if alloc_buddy_huge_page() succeeds we don't decrement h->resv_huge_pages, which means that successful hugetlb_fault() returns without releasing the reserve count. As a result, subsequent hugetlb_fault() might fail despite that there are still free hugepages. This patch simply adds decrementing code on that code path. I reproduced this problem when testing v4.3 kernel in the following situation: - the test machine/VM is a NUMA system, - hugepage overcommiting is enabled, - most of hugepages are allocated and there's only one free hugepage which is on node 0 (for example), - another program, which calls set_mempolicy(MPOL_BIND) to bind itself to node 1, tries to allocate a hugepage, - the allocation should fail but the reserve count is still hold. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.16+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-caused-by-wrong-reserve-count mm/hugetlb.c --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-caused-by-wrong-reserve-count +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1886,7 +1886,10 @@ struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_a page = __alloc_buddy_huge_page_with_mpol(h, vma, addr); if (!page) goto out_uncharge_cgroup; - + if (!avoid_reserve && vma_has_reserves(vma, gbl_chg)) { + SetPagePrivate(page); + h->resv_huge_pages--; + } spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock); list_move(&page->lru, &h->hugepage_activelist); /* Fall through */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are tools-vm-page-typesc-support-kpf_idle.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-caused-by-wrong-reserve-count.patch rmap-add-argument-to-charge-compound-page-fix.patch mm-hwpoison-adjust-for-new-thp-refcounting.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html