Re: [PATCH] page owners: correct page->order when to free page

[Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 03:58:06PM +0900, Jungsoo Son wrote:
> When I use PAGE_OWNER in mmotm tree, I found a problem that mismatches
> the number of allocated pages. When I investigate, the problem is that
> set_page_order is called for only a head page if freed page is merged to
> a higher order page in the buddy allocator so tail pages of the higher
> order page couldn't be reset to page->order = -1.
> 
> It means when we do 'cat /proc/page-owner', it could show wrong
> information.

We could make read_page_owner more smart so that it could check
PageBuddy at head page of high order page and skip tail pages but
it needs zone->lock which is already heavy contention lock.
Additionally, it could make wrong information on pcp pages, too.
So, I like this simple approach.

> 
> So page->order should be set to -1 for all the tail pages as well as the
> first page before buddy allocator merges them.
> 
> This patch is for clearing page->order of all the tail pages in
> free_pages_prepare() when to free page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Thanks.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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