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From: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] powerpc/mm/radix: Free PUD table when freeing pagetable
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 15:30:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708203010.qmpdgtxpfgiffzpi@arbab-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200625064547.228448-3-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:15:45PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>remove_pagetable() isn't freeing PUD table. This causes memory
>leak during memory unplug. Fix this.

This has come up before:
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20190731061920.GA18807@in.ibm.com/

tl;dr, x86 intentionally does not free, and it wasn't quite clear if 
their motivation also applies to us. Probably not, but I thought it was 
worth mentioning again.

-- 
Reza Arbab

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-08 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-25  6:45 [PATCH v2 0/4] powerpc/mm/radix: Memory unplug fixes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-06-25  6:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] powerpc/mm/radix: Fix PTE/PMD fragment count for early page table mappings Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-06-25 11:30   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-06-25  6:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] powerpc/mm/radix: Free PUD table when freeing pagetable Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-07-08  2:12   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-07-08  2:48     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-07-08 20:30   ` Reza Arbab [this message]
2020-06-25  6:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] powerpc/mm/radix: Remove split_kernel_mapping() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-06-25  6:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc/mm/radix: Create separate mappings for hot-plugged memory Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-07-08  4:44   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-07-08  6:24     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-07-08 12:14       ` Michael Ellerman

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