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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/4] mm, page_owner: keep owner info when freeing the page
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 03:18:27PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> For debugging purposes it might be useful to keep the owner info even after
> page has been freed, and include it in e.g. dump_page() when detecting a bad
> page state. For that, change the PAGE_EXT_OWNER flag meaning to "page owner
> info has been set at least once" and add new PAGE_EXT_OWNER_ACTIVE for tracking
> whether page is supposed to be currently tracked allocated or free.

Why not PAGE_EXT_OWNER_ALLOCED if it means "allocated"? Active is somewhat
loaded term for a page.

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Kirill A. Shutemov

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