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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2006-02-14 13:52:59 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-14 16:09:33 -0800
commitd98c7a09843621f1b145ca5ae8ed03ff04085edb (patch)
tree764b943efb177ca506fad61a63bb9e8cbf56a3a7 /mm/page_alloc.c
parent41d78ba55037468e6c86c53e3076d1a74841de39 (diff)
[PATCH] compound page: default destructor
Somehow I imagined that calling a NULL destructor would free a compound page rather than oopsing. No, we must supply a default destructor, __free_pages_ok using the order noted by prep_compound_page. hugetlb can still replace this as before with its own free_huge_page pointer. The case that needs this is not common: rarely does put_compound_page's put_page_testzero bring the count down to 0. But if get_user_pages is applied to some part of a compound page, without immediate release (e.g. AIO or Infiniband), then it's possible for its put_page to come after the containing vma has been unmapped and the driver done its free_pages. That's just the kind of case compound pages are supposed to be guarding against (but Nick points out, nor did PageReserved handle this right). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index eec89ab39bb..62c12252858 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ long nr_swap_pages;
int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
static void fastcall free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold);
+static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
/*
* results with 256, 32 in the lowmem_reserve sysctl:
@@ -173,12 +174,18 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page)
* put_page() function. Its ->lru.prev holds the order of allocation.
* This usage means that zero-order pages may not be compound.
*/
+
+static void free_compound_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ __free_pages_ok(page, (unsigned long)page[1].lru.prev);
+}
+
static void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
{
int i;
int nr_pages = 1 << order;
- page[1].lru.next = NULL; /* set dtor */
+ page[1].lru.next = (void *)free_compound_page; /* set dtor */
page[1].lru.prev = (void *)order;
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
struct page *p = page + i;