1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 40d841cb5126..51c9e2c01640 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -401,12 +401,20 @@ static void return_unused_surplus_pages(unsigned long unused_resv_pages)
         struct page *page;
         unsigned long nr_pages;
 
+        /*
+         * We want to release as many surplus pages as possible, spread
+         * evenly across all nodes. Iterate across all nodes until we
+         * can no longer free unreserved surplus pages. This occurs when
+         * the nodes with surplus pages have no free pages.
+         */
+        unsigned long remaining_iterations = num_online_nodes();
+
         /* Uncommit the reservation */
         resv_huge_pages -= unused_resv_pages;
 
         nr_pages = min(unused_resv_pages, surplus_huge_pages);
 
-        while (nr_pages) {
+        while (remaining_iterations-- && nr_pages) {
                 nid = next_node(nid, node_online_map);
                 if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
                         nid = first_node(node_online_map);
@@ -424,6 +432,7 @@ static void return_unused_surplus_pages(unsigned long unused_resv_pages)
                         surplus_huge_pages--;
                         surplus_huge_pages_node[nid]--;
                         nr_pages--;
+                        remaining_iterations = num_online_nodes();
                 }
         }
 }