From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/percpu-km: clear page->private before free them
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 10:37:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1bd9a8c7-aa7e-4784-99f9-ba2c5cdc3a68@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260703-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v2-1-2970fe777dd6@nvidia.com>
On 7/3/26 15:47, Zi Yan wrote:
> page->private is cleared in free page path. In a subsequent commit,
> tail_page->private will be checked and ensured to be zero. Clearing
> percpu-km allocated pages' ->private to prevent triggering warnings later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> ---
> mm/percpu-km.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/percpu-km.c b/mm/percpu-km.c
> index 4efa74a495cb6..7ffe84adadb9d 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu-km.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu-km.c
> @@ -94,8 +94,15 @@ static void pcpu_destroy_chunk(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk)
> pcpu_stats_chunk_dealloc();
> trace_percpu_destroy_chunk(chunk->base_addr);
>
> - if (chunk->data)
> + if (chunk->data) {
> + struct page *pages = (struct page *)chunk->data;
> + int i;
> +
> + /* clear chunk info from each page before free them */
> + for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
> + pcpu_set_page_chunk(pages + i, NULL);
> __free_pages(chunk->data, order_base_2(nr_pages));
> + }
> pcpu_free_chunk(chunk);
> }
>
>
Un-doing what we did in pcpu_create_chunk.
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-06 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-03 13:47 [PATCH v2 0/5] Keep tail page private zero at free and folio split time Zi Yan
2026-07-03 13:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/percpu-km: clear page->private before free them Zi Yan
2026-07-06 8:37 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-07-03 13:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm/compaction: stop recording free page order in page->private Zi Yan
2026-07-03 13:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm/huge_memory: add page->private check back in __split_folio_to_order() Zi Yan
2026-07-06 0:52 ` Baolin Wang
2026-07-06 8:30 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-06 8:33 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-03 13:47 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mm/page_alloc: make sure tail_page->private is zero at page free time Zi Yan
2026-07-03 13:47 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] mm/page_alloc: remove set_page_private() in prep_compound_tail() Zi Yan
2026-07-03 14:52 ` Lance Yang
2026-07-06 8:26 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-05 3:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Keep tail page private zero at free and folio split time Zi Yan
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