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Although page allocation always clears page->private in the first page or head page of an allocation, it has never made a point of clearing page->private in the tails (though 0 is often what is already there). But now commit71e2d666ef("mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split") issues a warning when page_tail->private is found to be non-0 (unless it's swapcache). Change that warning to dump page_tail (which also dumps head), instead of just the head: so far we have seen dead000000000122, dead000000000003, dead000000000001 or 0000000000000002 in the raw output for tail private. We could just delete the warning, but today's consensus appears to want page->private to be 0, unless there's a good reason for it to be set: so now clear it in prep_compound_tail() (more general than just for THP; but not for high order allocation, which makes no pass down the tails). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1c4233bb-4e4d-5969-fbd4-96604268a285@google.com Fixes:71e2d666ef("mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 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 Restructured Text 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.