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-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index dcacc811e70e..74c1b6b0b37b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -286,6 +286,12 @@ static struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
if (page) {
+ /*
+ * This page is now managed by the hugetlb allocator and has
+ * no users -- drop the buddy allocator's reference.
+ */
+ put_page_testzero(page);
+ VM_BUG_ON(page_count(page));
nid = page_to_nid(page);
set_compound_page_dtor(page, free_huge_page);
/*
@@ -369,13 +375,14 @@ free:
enqueue_huge_page(page);
else {
/*
- * Decrement the refcount and free the page using its
- * destructor. This must be done with hugetlb_lock
+ * The page has a reference count of zero already, so
+ * call free_huge_page directly instead of using
+ * put_page. This must be done with hugetlb_lock
* unlocked which is safe because free_huge_page takes
* hugetlb_lock before deciding how to free the page.
*/
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
- put_page(page);
+ free_huge_page(page);
spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
}
}