gh-145615: Fix mimalloc page leak in the free-threaded build (gh-145626)
Fix three issues that caused mimalloc pages to be leaked until the owning thread exited: 1. In _PyMem_mi_page_maybe_free(), move pages out of the full queue when relying on QSBR to defer freeing the page. Pages in the full queue are never searched by mi_page_queue_find_free_ex(), so a page left there is unusable for allocations. 2. Move _PyMem_mi_page_clear_qsbr() from _mi_page_free_collect() to _mi_page_thread_free_collect() where it only fires when all blocks on the page are free (used == 0). The previous placement was too broad: it cleared QSBR state whenever local_free was non-NULL, but _mi_page_free_collect() is called from non-allocation paths (e.g., page visiting in mi_heap_visit_blocks) where the page is not being reused. 3. In _PyMem_mi_page_maybe_free(), use the page's heap tld to find the correct thread state for QSBR list insertion instead of PyThreadState_GET(). During stop-the-world pauses, the function may process pages belonging to other threads, so the current thread state is not necessarily the owner of the page.
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Sam Gross committed
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Parent: 171133a
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on 3/9/2026, 5:24:34 PM