Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/4] mm, page_owner: add folio allocate post callback for struct page_owner to make the owner clearer

jeff.xie
2023-11-09T16:04:46Z

November 9, 2023 at 11:36 PM, "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 11:25:18PM +0800, Jeff Xie wrote:
>
> >
> > From the perspective of a folio, it cannot obtain information about
> > all the situations in which folios are allocated.
> > If we want to determine whether a folio is related to vmalloc or
> > kernel_stack or the other memory allocation process,
> > using just a folio parameter is not sufficient. To achieve this goal,
> > we can add a callback function to provide more extensibility and
> > information.
> >
>
> But we want that anyway (or at least I do). You're right that vmalloc
> pages are not marked as being vmalloc pages and don't contain the
> information about which vmalloc area they belong to. I've talked about
> ways we can add that information to folios in the past, but I have a lot
> of other projects I'm working on. Are you interested in doing that?
>

Certainly, I'm willing to give it a try. If a folio can include vmalloc information
or more information, this is great. I may need to understand the background of why
you proposed this method in the past.

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Jeff Xie