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| author | Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> | 2021-04-30 08:55:08 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-04-30 21:20:36 +0300 |
| commit | 8e9b16c47680f6e7d6e5864a37f313f905a91cf5 (patch) | |
| tree | 808c4e3b1e920e4a0c570f2eab9deec1ff14bb83 /include | |
| parent | 608b5d668c8ea6734594a401c9adab4093ad9847 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8e9b16c47680f6e7d6e5864a37f313f905a91cf5.tar.xz | |
mm: page_owner: detect page_owner recursion via task_struct
Before the change page_owner recursion was detected via fetching
backtrace and inspecting it for current instruction pointer.
It has a few problems:
- it is slightly slow as it requires extra backtrace and a linear stack
scan of the result
- it is too late to check if backtrace fetching required memory
allocation itself (ia64's unwinder requires it).
To simplify recursion tracking let's use page_owner recursion flag in
'struct task_struct'.
The change make page_owner=on work on ia64 by avoiding infinite
recursion in:
kmalloc()
-> __set_page_owner()
-> save_stack()
-> unwind() [ia64-specific]
-> build_script()
-> kmalloc()
-> __set_page_owner() [we short-circuit here]
-> save_stack()
-> unwind() [recursion]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210402115342.1463781-1-slyfox@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index d7d07aa0facf..9c25c8e67030 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -841,6 +841,10 @@ struct task_struct { /* Stalled due to lack of memory */ unsigned in_memstall:1; #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER + /* Used by page_owner=on to detect recursion in page tracking. */ + unsigned in_page_owner:1; +#endif unsigned long atomic_flags; /* Flags requiring atomic access. */ |