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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm,thp: stop leaking unreleased file pages
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 06:50:15PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> When collapse_file() calls try_to_release_page(), it has already
> isolated the page: so if releasing buffers happens to fail (as it
> sometimes does), remember to putback_lru_page(): otherwise that page is
> left unreclaimable and unfreeable, and the file extent uncollapsible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.4+

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

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Kirill A. Shutemov

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