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While investigating some complex memory allocation and free bugs especially in multi-processes and multi-threads cases, from time to time, I feel the free stack isn't sufficient as a page can be freed by processes or threads other than the one allocating it. And other processes and threads which free the page often have the exactly same free stack with the one allocating the page. We can't know who free the page only through the free stack though the current page_owner does tell us the pid and tgid of the one allocating the page. This makes the bug investigation often hard. So this patch adds free pid and tgid in page_owner, so that we can easily figure out if the freeing is crossing processes or threads. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231114034202.73098-1-v-songbaohua@oppo.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: Audra Mitchell <audra@redhat.com> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kassey Li <quic_yingangl@quicinc.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.