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    mm: prep_compound_tail() clear page->private · 5aae9265
    Hugh Dickins authored
    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 commit 71e2d666 ("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: 71e2d666 ("mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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