Re: [PATCH v2] mm: cma: WARN if freed memory is still in use

[Michal Nazarewicz]

On Tue, Nov 13 2012, Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Memory returned to free_contig_range() must have no other references. Let
> kernel to complain loudly if page reference count is not equal to 1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 022e4ed..290c2eb 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5888,8 +5888,13 @@ done:
>  
>  void free_contig_range(unsigned long pfn, unsigned nr_pages)
>  {
> -	for (; nr_pages--; ++pfn)
> -		__free_page(pfn_to_page(pfn));
> +	struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> +	int count = 0;
> +	for (; nr_pages--; page++) {
> +		count += page_count(page) != 1;
> +		__free_page(page);
> +	}
> +	WARN(count != 0, "%d pages are still in use!\n", count);
>  }
>  #endif

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