Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:10:17 +0900 | From | Joonsoo Kim <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] mm/page_owner: correct owner information for early allocated pages |
| |
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 03:38:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:14:06 +0900 Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> wrote: > > > Extended memory to store page owner information is initialized some time > > later than that page allocator starts. Until initialization, many pages > > can be allocated and they have no owner information. This make debugging > > using page owner harder, so some fixup will be helpful. > > > > This patch fix up this situation by setting fake owner information > > immediately after page extension is initialized. Information doesn't > > tell the right owner, but, at least, it can tell whether page is > > allocated or not, more correctly. > > > > On my testing, this patch catches 13343 early allocated pages, although > > they are mostly allocated from page extension feature. Anyway, after then, > > there is no page left that it is allocated and has no page owner flag. > > We really should have a Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt which explains > all this stuff, provides examples, etc.
Okay. Will do in next spin.
Thanks.
| |