Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm/page_owner: add zone range overlapping check

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Fri Apr 01 2016 - 04:19:29 EST


On 1.4.2016 4:06, js1304@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
>
> There is a system that node's pfn are overlapped like as following.
>
> -----pfn-------->
> N0 N1 N2 N0 N1 N2
>
> Therefore, we need to care this overlapping when iterating pfn range.
>
> There are one place in page_owner.c that iterates pfn range and
> it doesn't consider this overlapping. Add it.
>
> Without this patch, above system could over count early allocated
> page number before page_owner is activated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/page_owner.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
> index ac3d8d1..438768c 100644
> --- a/mm/page_owner.c
> +++ b/mm/page_owner.c
> @@ -301,6 +301,9 @@ static void init_pages_in_zone(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct zone *zone)
>
> page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>
> + if (page_zone(page) != zone)
> + continue;
> +
> /*
> * We are safe to check buddy flag and order, because
> * this is init stage and only single thread runs.
>