From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/15] selftests/mm: free dynamically allocated PMD-sized buffers in split_huge_page_test
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:44:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FAA98235-2499-4769-A4B8-18C5054D1885@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a61c264c824d140a948db64b2e1036bc4229d163.1775466330.git.sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
On 6 Apr 2026, at 5:19, Sayali Patil wrote:
> Dynamically allocated buffers of PMD size for file-backed
> THP operations (file_buf1 and file_buf2) were not freed on
> the success path and some failure paths. Since the
> function is called repeatedly in a loop for each split order,
> this can cause significant memory leaks.
>
> On architectures with large PMD sizes, repeated leaks
> could exhaust system memory and trigger the OOM killer
> during test execution.
>
> Ensure all allocated buffers are freed to maintain
> stable repeated test runs.
>
> Fixes: 035a112e5fd5 ("selftests/mm: make file-backed THP split work by writing PMD size data")
> Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> .../selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 22 ++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
Thank you for fixing it.
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-07 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-06 9:19 [PATCH v4 00/15] selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 01/15] selftests/mm: restore default nr_hugepages value via EXIT trap in charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh Sayali Patil
2026-04-07 14:38 ` Zi Yan
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 02/15] selftests/mm: fix hugetlb pathname construction " Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 03/15] selftests/mm: restore default nr_hugepages value via EXIT trap in hugetlb_reparenting_test.sh Sayali Patil
2026-04-07 14:39 ` Zi Yan
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 04/15] selftests/mm: fix hugetlb pathname construction " Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 05/15] selftests/mm: fix cgroup task placement and drop memory.current checks " Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 06/15] selftests/mm: size tmpfs according to PMD page size in split_huge_page_test Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 07/15] selftests/mm: free dynamically allocated PMD-sized buffers " Sayali Patil
2026-04-07 14:44 ` Zi Yan [this message]
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 08/15] selftest/mm: align memory size to huge page size in hugepage-mremap test Sayali Patil
2026-04-07 14:57 ` Zi Yan
2026-04-08 14:30 ` Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 09/15] selftest/mm: register existing mapping with userfaultfd in hugepage-mremap Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 10/15] selftests/mm: ensure destination is hugetlb-backed " Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 11/15] selftests/mm: skip uffd-wp-mremap if UFFD write-protect is unsupported Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 12/15] selftests/mm: skip uffd-stress test when nr_pages_per_cpu is zero Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 13/15] selftests/mm: move hwpoison setup into run_test() and silence modprobe output for memory-failure category Sayali Patil
2026-04-07 14:51 ` Zi Yan
2026-04-08 8:36 ` Sayali Patil
2026-04-08 15:40 ` Zi Yan
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 14/15] selftests/mm: clarify alternate unmapping in compaction_test Sayali Patil
2026-04-06 9:19 ` [PATCH v4 15/15] selftests/cgroup: extend test_hugetlb_memcg.c to support all huge page sizes Sayali Patil
2026-04-07 12:07 ` Sayali Patil
2026-04-07 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 00/15] selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements Venkat
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