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| author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2019-07-12 05:55:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-07-12 20:05:43 +0200 |
| commit | 3972f6bb1c6ae1d32dcf2e4ff635d24b77f26dcb (patch) | |
| tree | 24a0c4a24d8e1afdcb7ca5dd088c1bd4d191a9b9 /Documentation | |
| parent | mm, page_alloc: more extensive free page checking with debug_pagealloc (diff) | |
| download | linux-3972f6bb1c6ae1d32dcf2e4ff635d24b77f26dcb.tar.xz linux-3972f6bb1c6ae1d32dcf2e4ff635d24b77f26dcb.zip | |
mm, debug_pagealloc: use a page type instead of page_ext flag
When debug_pagealloc is enabled, we currently allocate the page_ext
array to mark guard pages with the PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD flag. Now that
we have the page_type field in struct page, we can use that instead, as
guard pages are neither PageSlab nor mapped to userspace. This reduces
memory overhead when debug_pagealloc is enabled and there are no other
features requiring the page_ext array.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190603143451.27353-4-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index f1c433daef6b..aa4e7e7b87c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -805,12 +805,10 @@ tracking down these problems. debug_pagealloc= - [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this - parameter enables the feature at boot time. In - default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge - chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable - it at boot time and the system will work mostly same - with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. + [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter + enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is + disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a + kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. on: enable the feature debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging |