linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: prep_compound_tail() clear page->private

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Date:   Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:51:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: prep_compound_tail() clear page->private

Although page allocation always clears page->private in the first page
or head page of an allocation, it has never made a point of clearing
page->private in the tails (though 0 is often what is already there).

But now commit 71e2d666ef85 ("mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t
during THP split") issues a warning when page_tail->private is found to
be non-0 (unless it's swapcache).

Change that warning to dump page_tail (which also dumps head), instead
of just the head: so far we have seen dead000000000122, dead000000000003,
dead000000000001 or 0000000000000002 in the raw output for tail private.

We could just delete the warning, but today's consensus appears to want
page->private to be 0, unless there's a good reason for it to be set:
so now clear it in prep_compound_tail() (more general than just for THP;
but not for high order allocation, which makes no pass down the tails).

Fixes: 71e2d666ef85 ("mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +-
 mm/page_alloc.c  | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 03fc7e5edf07..561a42567477 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2462,7 +2462,7 @@ static void __split_huge_page_tail(struct page *head, int tail,
 	 * Fix up and warn once if private is unexpectedly set.
 	 */
 	if (!folio_test_swapcache(page_folio(head))) {
-		VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(page_tail->private != 0, head);
+		VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(page_tail->private != 0, page_tail);
 		page_tail->private = 0;
 	}

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index b5a6c815ae28..218b28ee49ed 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -807,6 +807,7 @@ static void prep_compound_tail(struct page *head, int tail_idx)

 	p->mapping = TAIL_MAPPING;
 	set_compound_head(p, head);
+	set_page_private(p, 0);
 }

 void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
-- 
2.35.3