linux-kernel - Re: put_page on transparent huge page leaks?

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Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:31:19 -0600
From:	Jay Cornwall <jay@...rnwall.me>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: put_page on transparent huge page leaks?

On 2014-02-22 11:44, Jay Cornwall wrote:
> On 2014-02-21 20:31, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:23:39AM -0600, Jay Cornwall wrote:
>>> I'm tracking a possible memory leak in iommu/amd. The driver uses 
>>> this logic
>>> to fault a page in response to a PRI from a device:
> 
> The head page appears to be leaking a reference. There is *no leak* if
> the driver faults the head page directly.

My apologies, this was fixed somewhere in the patch series: "mm: tail 
page refcounting optimization for slab and hugetlbfs" (Jan 22nd).

Our merge was slightly older than I'd thought.
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