* [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: clear page tag refs when onlining hotplugged memory
@ 2026-10-20 16:10 Zenghui Yu
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From: Zenghui Yu @ 2026-10-20 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-mm, linux-kernel
Cc: akpm, vbabka, surenb, mhocko, brendan.jackman, hannes, ziy,
Zenghui Yu (Huawei)
From: "Zenghui Yu (Huawei)" <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Onlining hotplugged memory (e.g., a dev_dax device bound to kmem) with
CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG triggers:
alloc_tag was not set
WARNING: ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:166 at __pgalloc_tag_sub+0x1fc/0x254
Call trace:
__pgalloc_tag_sub+0x1fc/0x254 (P)
__free_pages_ok+0x14c/0x6ac
__free_pages_core+0xa8/0x188
generic_online_page+0x14/0x20
online_pages+0x220/0x3b0
memory_subsys_online+0xfc/0x198
device_online+0x58/0xe0
state_store+0xf0/0xf8
Onlined pages enter the buddy allocator without ever being allocated, so
their allocation tag references are NULL. The free path expects a valid
tag or a CODETAG_EMPTY mark and warns otherwise. Other paths feeding
never-allocated pages into the buddy (memblock_free_pages(),
init_cma_reserved_pageblock(), free_reserved_pages()) mark them with
clear_page_tag_ref() first; the hotplug onlining path was missed.
Mark the pages as not tagged in the MEMINIT_HOTPLUG branch of
__free_pages_core(), where PageOffline and the refcount are already
reset.
Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu (Huawei) <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e71e514ea18d..9561f2cd873e 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1604,6 +1604,7 @@ void __meminit __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(PageReserved(p));
__ClearPageOffline(p);
set_page_count(p, 0);
+ clear_page_tag_ref(p);
}
adjust_managed_page_count(page, nr_pages);
--
2.56.0
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