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RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-Spam-Score: -0.82 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 03EC121CF4 X-Spam-Flag: NO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Update page_owner documentation including the new page_owner_stacks feature to show how it can be used. Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Marco Elver Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka --- Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.= rst index 62e3f7ab23cc..0d0334cd5179 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ fragmentation statistics can be obtained through gfp fla= g information of each page. It is already implemented and activated if page owner is enabled. Other usages are more than welcome. =20 +It can also be used to show all the stacks and their outstanding +allocations, which gives us a quick overview of where the memory is going +without the need to screen through all the pages and match the allocation +and free operation. + page owner is disabled by default. So, if you'd like to use it, you need to add "page_owner=3Don" to your boot cmdline. If the kernel is built with page owner and page owner is disabled in runtime due to not enabling @@ -68,6 +73,46 @@ Usage =20 4) Analyze information from page owner:: =20 + cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks > stacks.txt + cat stacks.txt + prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120 + get_page_from_freelist+0x7e6/0x2140 + __alloc_pages+0x18a/0x370 + new_slab+0xc8/0x580 + ___slab_alloc+0x1f2/0xaf0 + __slab_alloc.isra.86+0x22/0x40 + kmem_cache_alloc+0x31b/0x350 + __khugepaged_enter+0x39/0x100 + dup_mmap+0x1c7/0x5ce + copy_process+0x1afe/0x1c90 + kernel_clone+0x9a/0x3c0 + __do_sys_clone+0x66/0x90 + do_syscall_64+0x7f/0x160 + entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74 + stack_count: 234 + ... + ... + echo 7000 > /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/count_threshold + cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks> stacks_7000.txt + cat stacks_7000.txt + prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120 + get_page_from_freelist+0x7e6/0x2140 + __alloc_pages+0x18a/0x370 + alloc_pages_mpol+0xdf/0x1e0 + folio_alloc+0x14/0x50 + filemap_alloc_folio+0xb0/0x100 + page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x97/0x180 + filemap_fault+0x4b4/0x1200 + __do_fault+0x2d/0x110 + do_pte_missing+0x4b0/0xa30 + __handle_mm_fault+0x7fa/0xb70 + handle_mm_fault+0x125/0x300 + do_user_addr_fault+0x3c9/0x840 + exc_page_fault+0x68/0x150 + asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 + stack_count: 8248 + ... + cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt ./page_owner_sort page_owner_full.txt sorted_page_owner.txt =20 --=20 2.43.0