Re: [PATCH] x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning

[Hugh Dickins]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 08:49:23PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > So Hans' original hugepage leak remains unexplained and unfixed.
> > Hans, did you find that hugepage leak with a standard kernel, or were
> > you perhaps trying out some hugepage-using patch of your own, without
> > marking the vma VM_HUGETLB?  Or were you expecting the hugetlbfs file
> > to truncate itself once all mmappers had gone?  If the standard kernel
> > leaks hugepages, I'm surprised the hugetlb guys don't know about it.
> 
> I used a standard kernel (well, not quite, I had made some changes to
> the /proc/pid/pagemap code, but nothing that would affect the hugepage
> stuff) and some simple test program that would just mmap a hugepage.
> 
> I expected that any hugepage that a process had mmapped would
> automatically be returned to the system when the process exits. That was
> not the case, the process exited and the hugepage was lost (unless I
> changed the program to explicitly munmap the hugepage before exiting).
> Removing the hugetlbfs file containing the hugepage also didn't free the
> page.

Hmm.  That doesn't fit with my experience: I've not found an explicit
munmap makes any difference (I wouldn't expect it to), but removing
the file once all openers gone does free everything up.  I guess I'm
overlooking something more experienced hugepagers will soon light upon.

Hugh
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