Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: handle profiling for fake memory allocations during compaction

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:05:04 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> During compaction isolated free pages are marked allocated so that they
> can be split and/or freed. For that, post_alloc_hook() is used inside
> split_map_pages() and release_free_list(). split_map_pages() marks free
> pages allocated, splits the pages and then lets alloc_contig_range_noprof()
> free those pages. release_free_list() marks free pages and immediately
> frees them. This usage of post_alloc_hook() affect memory allocation
> profiling because these functions might not be called from an instrumented
> allocator, therefore current->alloc_tag is NULL and when debugging is
> enabled (CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y) that causes warnings.

It would be helpful to quote the warnings for the changelog.  And a
Reported-by:/Closes: if appropriate.

I'm assuming we want this in 6.10-rcX?

Please help in identifying the Fixes:, for anyone who might be
backporting allocation profiling.