Re: [PATCH v10 Golden] Unified trace buffer

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Mon Sep 29 2008 - 19:35:52 EST


* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
[...]
> +/*
> + * This hack stolen from mm/slob.c.
> + * We can store per page timing information in the page frame of the page.
> + * Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting this idea.
> + */
> +struct buffer_page {
> + union {
> + struct {
> + unsigned long flags; /* mandatory */
> + atomic_t _count; /* mandatory */
> + u64 time_stamp; /* page time stamp */
> + unsigned size; /* size of page data */
> + struct list_head list; /* list of free pages */
> + };
> + struct page page;
> + };
> +};
> +

Hi Steven,

You should have a look at mm/slob.c free_slob_page(). I think your page
free will generate a "bad_page" call due to mapping != NULL and mapcount
!= 0. I just ran into this in my own code. :)

Regards,

Mathieu

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