Commit 55fdcf0b authored by Barry Song's avatar Barry Song Committed by Jinjiang Tu
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mm/page_owner: record and dump free_pid and free_tgid

mainline inclusion
from mainline-v6.8-rc1
commit 1b5c65b64cd417c801945b26a2a50c4d4eefaec8
category: feature
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I8XGY0
CVE: NA

Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=1b5c65b64cd417c801945b26a2a50c4d4eefaec8

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While investigating some complex memory allocation and free bugs
especially in multi-processes and multi-threads cases, from time to time,
I feel the free stack isn't sufficient as a page can be freed by processes
or threads other than the one allocating it.  And other processes and
threads which free the page often have the exactly same free stack with
the one allocating the page.  We can't know who free the page only through
the free stack though the current page_owner does tell us the pid and tgid
of the one allocating the page.  This makes the bug investigation often
hard.

So this patch adds free pid and tgid in page_owner, so that we can easily
figure out if the freeing is crossing processes or threads.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231114034202.73098-1-v-songbaohua@oppo.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarBarry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Audra Mitchell <audra@redhat.com>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Kassey Li <quic_yingangl@quicinc.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com>
parent 54d11be6
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