Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] mm/page_owner: keep track of page owners

[Joonsoo Kim]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:54:08PM +0530, Chintan Pandya wrote:
> Hi Kim,

Hello, Chintan.

> 
> This is really useful stuff that you are doing. And the runtime
> allocation for storing page owner stack is a good call.
> 
> Along with that, we also use extended version of the original
> page_owner patch. The extension is, to store stack trace at the time
> of freeing the page. That will indeed eat up space like anything
> (just double of original page_owner) but it helps in debugging some
> crucial issues. Like, illegitimate free, finding leaked pages (if we

Sound really interesting. I hope to see it.

> store their time stamps) etc. The same has been useful in finding
> double-free cases in drivers. But we have never got a chance to
> upstream that. Now that these patches are being discussed again, do
> you think it would be good idea to integrate in the same league of
> patches ?

Good to hear. I think that you can upstream it separately. If you send
the patch, I will review it and help to merge it.

Thanks.
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