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x86, mm: do not leak page->ptl for pmd page tables 

There are two code paths how page with pmd page table can be freed:
pmd_free() and pmd_free_tlb().

I've missed the second one and didn't add page table destructor call
there.  It leads to leak of page->ptl for pmd page tables, if
dynamically allocated page->ptl is in use.

The patch adds the missed destructor and modifies documentation
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Kirill A. Shutemov 2013-11-21 14:32:09 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3a72660b07
commit c283610e44
2 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
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Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock
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@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ levels.
PMD split lock enabling requires pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() call on PMD table
allocation and pgtable_pmd_page_dtor() on freeing.
Allocation usually happens in pmd_alloc_one(), freeing in pmd_free(), but
make sure you cover all PMD table allocation / freeing paths: i.e X86_PAE
preallocate few PMDs on pgd_alloc().
Allocation usually happens in pmd_alloc_one(), freeing in pmd_free() and
pmd_free_tlb(), but make sure you cover all PMD table allocation / freeing
paths: i.e X86_PAE preallocate few PMDs on pgd_alloc().
With everything in place you can set CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK.

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arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
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@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ void ___pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pte)
#if PAGETABLE_LEVELS > 2
void ___pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd)
{
struct page *page = virt_to_page(pmd);
paravirt_release_pmd(__pa(pmd) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
/*
* NOTE! For PAE, any changes to the top page-directory-pointer-table
@ -69,7 +70,8 @@ void ___pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd)
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
tlb->need_flush_all = 1;
#endif
tlb_remove_page(tlb, virt_to_page(pmd));
pgtable_pmd_page_dtor(page);
tlb_remove_page(tlb, page);
}
#if PAGETABLE_LEVELS > 3