linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] mm,page_owner: Display all stacks and their count

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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:39:24 +0100
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] mm,page_owner: Display all stacks and their count

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 08:52:25AM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> The extra bits are used by KMSAN, and might conflict if enabled at the
> same time. I think the safest option is to keep your own list. I think
> that will also be more performant if there are other stackdepot users
> because you do not have to traverse any of the other entries.

Ok, I thought we had spare bits for other users.
But thinking about it some more, yes, it makes sense for page_owner to
maintain its own list, so traversing it is faster and we do not have
to place code to traverse the buckets in stackdepot.

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs