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<title>mm: print more details for bad_page()</title>
<updated>2014-01-24T00:36:50+00:00</updated>
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<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave@sr71.net</email>
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<published>2014-01-23T23:52:49+00:00</published>
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bad_page() is cool in that it prints out a bunch of data about the page.
But, I can never remember which page flags are good and which are bad,
or whether -&gt;index or -&gt;mapping is required to be NULL.

This patch allows bad/dump_page() callers to specify a string about why
they are dumping the page and adds explanation strings to a number of
places.  It also adds a 'bad_flags' argument to bad_page(), which it
then dumps out separately from the flags which are actually set.

This way, the messages will show specifically why the page was bad,
*specifically* which flags it is complaining about, if it was a page
flag combination which was the problem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch to pr_alert]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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bad_page() is cool in that it prints out a bunch of data about the page.
But, I can never remember which page flags are good and which are bad,
or whether -&gt;index or -&gt;mapping is required to be NULL.

This patch allows bad/dump_page() callers to specify a string about why
they are dumping the page and adds explanation strings to a number of
places.  It also adds a 'bad_flags' argument to bad_page(), which it
then dumps out separately from the flags which are actually set.

This way, the messages will show specifically why the page was bad,
*specifically* which flags it is complaining about, if it was a page
flag combination which was the problem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch to pr_alert]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility</title>
<updated>2012-12-12T01:22:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael Aquini</name>
<email>aquini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T00:02:38+00:00</published>
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Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly
the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest,
thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of
transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload.

This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on
making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system
to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups]
[rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Memory fragmentation introduced by ballooning might reduce significantly
the number of 2MB contiguous memory blocks that can be used within a guest,
thus imposing performance penalties associated with the reduced number of
transparent huge pages that could be used by the guest workload.

This patch introduces a common interface to help a balloon driver on
making its page set movable to compaction, and thus allowing the system
to better leverage the compation efforts on memory defragmentation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, s/__balloon_page_flags/page_flags_cleared/, small cleanups]
[rientjes@google.com: allow balloon compaction for any system with memory compaction enabled, which is the defconfig]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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