linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 20/25] Do not check for compound pages during the page allocator sanity checks

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Message-Id: <20090422091456.626E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:20:40 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/25] Do not check for compound pages during the page allocator sanity checks

> A number of sanity checks are made on each page allocation and free
> including that the page count is zero. page_count() checks for
> compound pages and checks the count of the head page if true. However,
> in these paths, we do not care if the page is compound or not as the
> count of each tail page should also be zero.
> 
> This patch makes two changes to the use of page_count() in the free path. It
> converts one check of page_count() to a VM_BUG_ON() as the count should
> have been unconditionally checked earlier in the free path. It also avoids
> checking for compound pages.
> 
> [mel@....ul.ie: Wrote changelog]
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index ec01d8f..376d848 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, struct page *buddy,
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	if (PageBuddy(buddy) && page_order(buddy) == order) {
> -		BUG_ON(page_count(buddy) != 0);
> +		VM_BUG_ON(page_count(buddy) != 0);
>  		return 1;
>  	}
>  	return 0;
>

Looks good.


> @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ static inline int free_pages_check(struct page *page)
>  {
>  	if (unlikely(page_mapcount(page) |
>  		(page->mapping != NULL)  |
> -		(page_count(page) != 0)  |
> +		(atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0) |
>  		(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE))) {
>  		bad_page(page);
>  		return 1;
> @@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp_flags)
>  {
>  	if (unlikely(page_mapcount(page) |
>  		(page->mapping != NULL)  |
> -		(page_count(page) != 0)  |
> +		(atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0)  |
>  		(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP))) {
>  		bad_page(page);
>  		return 1;


inserting VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page)) is better?





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