Huge pages: Memory leak on mmap failure

[Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2.6.32 and 3.4-rc6 mmap failure of a huge page causes a memory
leak. The 32 byte kmalloc cache grows by 10 mio entries if running
the following code:

--------
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x0040000
#endif

int main() {
    for (int i=0; i!=10000000; ++i) {
        void* ptr=mmap(NULL, 2*1024*1024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HUGETLB, 0, 0);
        if (ptr!=MAP_FAILED) abort();
    }
    return 0;
}

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g++ -O2 test.cpp && echo good
good

$ egrep 'SUnreclaim|HugePages_Total' /proc/meminfo
SUnreclaim:      1900756 kB
HugePages_Total:       0

$ ./a.out && echo good
good

$ egrep 'SUnreclaim|HugePages_Total' /proc/meminfo
SUnreclaim:      2213268 kB
HugePages_Total:       0

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