Re: [PATCH] Debugging: Keep track of page owners

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Dec 07 2012 - 17:44:19 EST


On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:37:27 -0800
Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/07/2012 02:26 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:\
> > I have cunningly divined the intention of your update and have queued
> > the below incremental. The change to
> > pagetypeinfo_showmixedcount_print() was a surprise. What's that there
> > for?
>
> Do you mean to ask why it's being modified at all here in this patch?
> It's referenced in the changelog a bit. I believe it came from Mel at
> some point. I didn't do much to that portion, but I happily drug those
> hunks along with my forward port. I believe it's virtually all the same
> as what you posted here:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50181

I'm now deeply confused.

Two days ago I merged a version which you sent me. It is presently at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch.

Today you sent a new version. My earlier email showed the difference
between these two versions.

AFACIT that difference was undescribed. I can see that the new version
uses the stack-tracing infrastructure, but the change to
pagetypeinfo_showmixedcount_print() is a mystery.

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