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| author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2022-10-22 10:51:06 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-10-28 23:37:22 +0300 |
| commit | 5aae9265ee1a30cf716d6caf6b29fe99b9d55130 (patch) | |
| tree | f3e214d827733b0995e8eada8d3d342fd1f4f7f2 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | 8ebe0a5eaaeb099de03d09ad20f54ed962e2261e (diff) | |
| download | linux-5aae9265ee1a30cf716d6caf6b29fe99b9d55130.tar.xz | |
mm: prep_compound_tail() clear page->private
Although page allocation always clears page->private in the first page or
head page of an allocation, it has never made a point of clearing
page->private in the tails (though 0 is often what is already there).
But now commit 71e2d666ef85 ("mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t
during THP split") issues a warning when page_tail->private is found to be
non-0 (unless it's swapcache).
Change that warning to dump page_tail (which also dumps head), instead of
just the head: so far we have seen dead000000000122, dead000000000003,
dead000000000001 or 0000000000000002 in the raw output for tail private.
We could just delete the warning, but today's consensus appears to want
page->private to be 0, unless there's a good reason for it to be set: so
now clear it in prep_compound_tail() (more general than just for THP; but
not for high order allocation, which makes no pass down the tails).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1c4233bb-4e4d-5969-fbd4-96604268a285@google.com
Fixes: 71e2d666ef85 ("mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index b5a6c815ae28..218b28ee49ed 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -807,6 +807,7 @@ static void prep_compound_tail(struct page *head, int tail_idx) p->mapping = TAIL_MAPPING; set_compound_head(p, head); + set_page_private(p, 0); } void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order) |