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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/hugetlb.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 8f97321396cc..dd1c1e7d970b 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1370,8 +1370,28 @@ static void remove_hugetlb_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page, h->surplus_huge_pages_node[nid]--; } + /* + * Very subtle + * + * For non-gigantic pages set the destructor to the normal compound + * page dtor. This is needed in case someone takes an additional + * temporary ref to the page, and freeing is delayed until they drop + * their reference. + * + * For gigantic pages set the destructor to the null dtor. This + * destructor will never be called. Before freeing the gigantic + * page destroy_compound_gigantic_page will turn the compound page + * into a simple group of pages. After this the destructor does not + * apply. + * + * This handles the case where more than one ref is held when and + * after update_and_free_page is called. + */ set_page_refcounted(page); - set_compound_page_dtor(page, NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR); + if (hstate_is_gigantic(h)) + set_compound_page_dtor(page, NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR); + else + set_compound_page_dtor(page, COMPOUND_PAGE_DTOR); h->nr_huge_pages--; h->nr_huge_pages_node[nid]--; |