Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] Page Alloc Hogger

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 05:36:03PM -0700, Juan Yescas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 12:29 PM David Hildenbrand (Arm)
> <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/23/26 09:47, Juan Yescas wrote:
> > > This patch series introduces the Page Alloc Hogger. The Page Alloc Hogger
> > > allows you to allocate memory pages from specific nodes, zones, migration
> > > types, and orders directly via debugfs. This provides key benefits for
> > > testing and debugging:
> >
> > Would it be feasible to carry this as an OOT debugging module? Would a lot of
> > symbols be missing to achieve that?
> >
>
> Thanks David for the comment.
>
> The only symbol that would be needed to have this module as OOT is
> "migratetype_names".

I mean you could hardcode these and be pretty safe :) I don't we're going
to add any time soon and if we did you'd probably need to change the module
code anyway?

I feel this debug module should be a noop in core.

Cheers, Lorenzo