linux-kernel - Re: powerpc hugepage leak caused by 576ed913 "block: use bio_add_page in bio_iov_iter_get

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Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:19:58 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: powerpc hugepage leak caused by 576ed913 "block: use
 bio_add_page in bio_iov_iter_get_pages"

Just curious:  What exact trees do you see this with?  This area
changed a lot with the multipage bvec support, and subsequent fixes.

So I'd be really curious if it can be reproduced with Jens' latest
block for-5.2 tree (which should be in latest linux-next).