mm: emit the "free" trace report before freeing memory in kmem_cache_free()
After the memory is freed, it can be immediately allocated by other CPUs, before the "free" trace report has been emitted. This causes inaccurate traces. For example, if the following sequence of events occurs: CPU 0 CPU 1 (1) alloc xxxxxx (2) free xxxxxx (3) alloc xxxxxx (4) free xxxxxx Then they will be inaccurately reported via tracing, so that they appear to have happened in this order: CPU 0 CPU 1 (1) alloc xxxxxx (2) alloc xxxxxx (3) free xxxxxx (4) free xxxxxx This makes it look like CPU 1 somehow managed to allocate memory that CPU 0 still had allocated for itself. In order to avoid this, emit the "free xxxxxx" tracing report just before the actual call to free the memory, instead of just after it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/374eb75d-7404-8721-4e1e-65b0e5b17279@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <yeyunfeng@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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