mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak in successful soft offlining
After a successful page migration by soft offlining, the source page is not properly freed and it's never reusable even if we unpoison it afterward. This is caused by the race between freeing page and setting PG_hwpoison. In successful soft offlining, the source page is put (and the refcount becomes 0) by putback_lru_page() in unmap_and_move(), where it's linked to pagevec and actual freeing back to buddy is delayed. So if PG_hwpoison is set for the page before freeing, the freeing does not functions as expected (in such case freeing aborts in free_pages_prepare() check.) This patch tries to make sure to free the source page before setting PG_hwpoison on it. To avoid reallocating, the page keeps MIGRATE_ISOLATE until after setting PG_hwpoison. This patch also removes obsolete comments about "keeping elevated refcount" because what they say is not true. Unlike memory_failure(), soft_offline_page() uses no special page isolation code, and the soft-offlined pages have no elevated. Signed-off-by: NNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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