Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] page_owner: Fix refcount imbalance and print fixup

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 4/4/24 9:06 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> This series consists of a refactoring/correctness of updating the metadata
> of tail pages, a couple of fixups for the refcounting part and a fixup for
> the stack_start() function.
> 
> From this series on, instead of counting the stacks, we count the outstanding
> nr_base_pages each stack has, which gives us a much better memory overview.
> The other fixup is for the migration part.
> 
> A more detailed explanation can be found in the changelog of the respective
> patches.

It's best to be explicit that this fixes issues in 6.9-rc1 and thus should
be in mm-hotfixes(-unstable). Also you can use e.g. [PATCH mm-hotfixes]
prefix to that effect next time.

> v3 -> v4:
>  - Fix some typos remarked by Vlastimil
>  - Add Reviewed-by tag from Vlastimil and Tested-by tag from Alexandre Ghiti
>    (closed a syzbot report for RISC)
> 
> Oscar Salvador (4):
>   mm,page_owner: Update metadata for tail pages
>   mm,page_owner: Fix refcount imbalance
>   mm,page_owner: Fix accounting of pages when migrating
>   mm,page_owner: Fix printing of stack records
> 
>  Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst |  73 +++++++------
>  mm/page_owner.c                 | 188 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  2 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)
>