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Upon migration, new allocated pages are being given the handle of the old pages. This is problematic because it means that for the stack which allocated the old page, we will be substracting the old page + the new one when that page is freed, creating an accounting imbalance. There is an interest in keeping it that way, as otherwise the output will biased towards migration stacks should those operations occur often, but that is not really helpful. The link from the new page to the old stack is being performed by calling __update_page_owner_handle() in __folio_copy_owner(). The only thing that is left is to link the migrate stack to the old page, so the old page will be subtracted from the migrate stack, avoiding by doing so any possible imbalance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240404070702.2744-4-osalvador@suse.de Fixes: 217b2119b9e2 ("mm,page_owner: implement the tracking of the stacks count") Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.