Re: [PATCH 39/40] autonuma: bugcheck page_autonuma fields on newlyallocated pages

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Jul 02 2012 - 02:41:24 EST


On 06/28/2012 08:56 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Debug tweak.

+static inline void autonuma_check_new_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ struct page_autonuma *page_autonuma;
+ if (!autonuma_impossible()) {
+ page_autonuma = lookup_page_autonuma(page);
+ BUG_ON(page_autonuma->autonuma_migrate_nid != -1);
+ BUG_ON(page_autonuma->autonuma_last_nid != -1);

At this point, BUG_ON is not likely to give us a useful backtrace
at all.

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2d53a1f..5943ed2 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -833,6 +833,7 @@ static inline int check_new_page(struct page *page)
bad_page(page);
return 1;
}
+ autonuma_check_new_page(page);
return 0;
}

Why don't you hook into the return codes that
check_new_page uses?

They appear to be there for a reason.

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