Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] mm/page_owner: misc cleanups

From: Ye Liu

Date: Wed Jul 01 2026 - 01:48:15 EST




在 2026/7/1 11:41, Andrew Morton 写道:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 09:22:26 +0800 Ye Liu <ye.liu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> v4:
>> - Patch 2: also update scripts/gdb/linux/page_owner.py to use MR_NEVER
>> instead of the hardcoded -1.
>> - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260630015331.147174-1-ye.liu@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> I'm seeing more changes than described here?
>
>
> Thanks, I updated mm.git to this version.
>
> Here's how v4 altered mm.git:
>
Patch[1] depends on this patch series and should be placed together with this part.
I will send V5 including both patches.

[1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260625014708.87386-1-ye.liu@xxxxxxxxx/

>
> mm/page_owner.c | 16 +++-------------
> scripts/gdb/linux/page_owner.py | 4 +++-
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/mm/page_owner.c~b
> +++ a/mm/page_owner.c
> @@ -428,12 +428,6 @@ void __folio_copy_owner(struct folio *ne
> * to skip less than the full buddy block, but that is acceptable for page owner
> * iteration purposes.
> *
> - * The lockless read of buddy_order_unsafe() can also return a garbage order if
> - * the page is concurrently allocated and PageBuddy is cleared between the check
> - * and the read. Clamp the advance at the next MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary so
> - * that a bogus order cannot carry @pfn into an unvalidated memory section,
> - * which would break callers that rely on boundary-aligned pfn_valid() checks.
> - *
> * Return: true if the page was skipped (caller should continue its loop),
> * false if the page is not a buddy page and should be processed normally.
> */
> @@ -445,12 +439,8 @@ static inline bool skip_buddy_pages(unsi
> return false;
>
> order = buddy_order_unsafe(page);
> - if (order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER) {
> - unsigned long new_pfn = *pfn + (1UL << order);
> - unsigned long boundary = ALIGN(*pfn + 1, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
> -
> - *pfn = min(new_pfn, boundary) - 1;
> - }
> + if (order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
> + *pfn += (1UL << order) - 1;
>
> return true;
> }
> @@ -561,7 +551,7 @@ static inline int print_page_owner_memcg
> cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup, name, sizeof(name));
> ret += scnprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret,
> "Charged %sto %smemcg %s\n",
> - (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_KMEM) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
> + PageMemcgKmem(page) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
> online ? "" : "offline ",
> name);
> out_unlock:
> --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/page_owner.py~b
> +++ a/scripts/gdb/linux/page_owner.py
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ class DumpPageOwner(gdb.Command):
> max_pfn = None
> p_ops = None
> migrate_reason_names = None
> + mr_never = None
>
> def __init__(self):
> super(DumpPageOwner, self).__init__("lx-dump-page-owner", gdb.COMMAND_SUPPORT)
> @@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ class DumpPageOwner(gdb.Command):
> self.max_pfn = int(gdb.parse_and_eval("max_pfn"))
> self.page_ext_size = int(gdb.parse_and_eval("page_ext_size"))
> self.migrate_reason_names = gdb.parse_and_eval('migrate_reason_names')
> + self.mr_never = int(gdb.parse_and_eval('MR_NEVER'))
>
> def page_ext_invalid(self, page_ext):
> if page_ext == gdb.Value(0):
> @@ -138,7 +140,7 @@ class DumpPageOwner(gdb.Command):
> else:
> gdb.write('page last free stack trace:\n')
> stackdepot.stack_depot_print(page_owner["free_handle"])
> - if page_owner['last_migrate_reason'] != -1:
> + if page_owner['last_migrate_reason'] != self.mr_never:
> gdb.write('page has been migrated, last migrate reason: %s\n' % self.migrate_reason_names[page_owner['last_migrate_reason']])
>
> def read_page_owner(self):
> _
>

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Thanks,
Ye Liu