Re: [PATCH v2] ftrace: Do not over-allocate ftrace memory

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 16:54:27 -0800
Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Don't remove this block. It's still needed. A lot of entries are
> > skipped when adding the records. Weak functions and zero'd pointers
> > that were part of the count are skipped. This is the code that handles
> > that. It has nothing to do with rounding errors.
> >   
> Sorry, misunderstanding. I thought that is what you meant with "This will
> make pages equal the number of pages that were allocated. Then I'm not sure
> we need this extra logic."
> 
> What is the no longer needed extra logic ?

I meant the added logic you had there, as I was a bit confused by the
"spaces" part.

The logic still needs to be updated, but I think it can be done with the
following:

	if (pg_unuse) {
		unsigned long pg_remaining, remaining = 0;
		long skip;

		/* Count the number of entries unused and compare it to skipped. */
		pg_remaining = (PAGE_SIZE << pg->order) / ENTRIES_SIZE - pg->index;

		if (!WARN(skipped < pg_remaining, "Extra allocated pages for ftrace")) {

			skip = skipped - pg_remaining;

			for (pg = pg_unuse; pg && skip > 0; pg = pg->next) {
				remaining += 1 << pg->order;
				skip -= (PAGE_SIZE << pg->order) / ENTRIES_SIZE;
			}

			pages -= remaining;

			/*
			 * Check to see if the number of pages remaining would
			 * just fit the number of entries skipped.
			 */
			WARN(pg || skip > 0, "Extra allocated pages for ftrace: %lu with %lu skipped",
			     remaining, skipped);
		}
		/* Need to synchronize with ftrace_location_range() */
		synchronize_rcu();
		ftrace_free_pages(pg_unuse);
	}

-- Steve