Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 4 authors, 2021-03-26

Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: fix memcg accounting leak in speculative cache lookup

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-03-19 13:23:40
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 03:15:47AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
When the freeing of a higher-order page block (non-compound) races
with a speculative page cache lookup, __free_pages() needs to leave
the first order-0 page in the chunk to the lookup but free the buddy
pages that the lookup doesn't know about separately.
Thanks.
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