mm: free compound page with correct order
Compound page should be freed by put_page() or free_pages() with correct
order. Not doing so will cause tail pages leaked.
The compound order can be obtained by compound_order() or use
HPAGE_PMD_ORDER in our case. Some people would argue the latter is
faster but I prefer the former which is more general.
This bug was observed not just on our servers (the worst case we saw is
11G leaked on a 48G machine) but also on our workstations running Ubuntu
based distro.
$ cat /proc/vmstat | grep thp_zero_page_alloc
thp_zero_page_alloc 55
thp_zero_page_alloc_failed 0
This means there is (thp_zero_page_alloc - 1) * (2M - 4K) memory leaked.
Fixes: 97ae17497e99 ("thp: implement refcounting for huge zero page")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Bob Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [3.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>