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Migration entries do not contribute to a page's reference count: move __split_huge_pmd_locked()'s page_ref_add() into pmd_migration's else block (along with the page_count() check - a page is quite likely to have reference count frozen to 0 when a migration entry is found). This will fix a very rare anonymous memory leak, after a split_huge_pmd() raced with an anon split_huge_page() or an anon THP migrate_pages(): since the wrongly raised refcount stopped the page (perhaps small, perhaps huge, depending on when the race hit) from ever being freed. At first I thought there were worse risks, from prematurely unfreezing a frozen page: but now think that would only affect page cache pages, which do not come this way (except for anonymous pages in swap cache, perhaps). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/84792468-f512-e48f-378c-e34c3641e97@google.com Fixes: ec0abae6dcdf ("mm/thp: fix __split_huge_pmd_locked() for migration PMD") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.