linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] generic debug pagealloc (-v2)

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Date:	Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:28:14 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, mingo@...e.hu, jirislaby@...il.com,
	rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic debug pagealloc (-v2)

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:31:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> > +#include <linux/mm.h>
> > +
> > +static void poison_page(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > +	void *addr;
> > +
> > +	if (PageHighMem(page))
> > +		return; /* i goofed */
> 
> heh.  A more complete comment would be needed here.
> 
> Also, as this is a kernel bug, perhaps some sort of runtime warning?

It just skips the poisoning for highmem pages.
Any page poisoning can be skipped safely if it doesn't set the page->poison
flag. So I'm going to put

/*
 * skipping the page poisoning for highmem pages
 */

> > +	page->poison = true;
> > +	addr = page_address(page);
> > +	memset(addr, PAGE_POISON, PAGE_SIZE);
> > +}

...

> > +static void unpoison_page(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > +	void *addr;
> > +
> 
> Shouldn't we check PageHighmem() here also?

It should not happen because page->poison flag is not set for highmem pages.
But it's good for sanity checking. So I'll have a BUG_ON here.

> > +	if (!page->poison)
> > +		return;
> > +

	BUG_ON(PageHighMem(page));

> > +	addr = page_address(page);
> > +	check_poison_mem(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
> > +	page->poison = false;
> > +}
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