linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kvm mmu: fix another largepage memory leak

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Message-ID: <49A28098.5040906@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:55:20 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm mmu: fix another largepage memory leak

Joerg Roedel wrote:
> In the paging_fetch function rmap_remove is called after setting a large
> pte to non-present. This causes rmap_remove to not drop the reference to
> the large page. The result is a memory leak of that page.
>
>   

Applied, thanks.

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