linux/mm
Nick Piggin 8519fb30e4 [PATCH] mm: compound release fix
Compound pages on SMP systems can now often be freed from pagetables via
the release_pages path.  This uses put_page_testzero which does not handle
compound pages at all.  Releasing constituent pages from process mappings
decrements their count to a large negative number and leaks the reference
at the head page - net result is a memory leak.

The problem was hidden because the debug check in put_page_testzero itself
actually did take compound pages into consideration.

Fix the bug and the debug check.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:33 -08:00
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bootmem.c
fadvise.c
filemap_xip.c
filemap.c
filemap.h
fremap.c
highmem.c
hugetlb.c
internal.h
Kconfig
madvise.c
Makefile
memory_hotplug.c
memory.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mmap.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c
page_io.c
page-writeback.c
pdflush.c
prio_tree.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
shmem.c
slab.c
slob.c
sparse.c
swap_state.c
swap.c [PATCH] mm: compound release fix 2006-02-07 16:12:33 -08:00
swapfile.c
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c