Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 8 authors, 2022-02-08

Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] mm/page_owner: Record task command name

From: Michal Hocko <hidden>
Date: 2022-02-01 15:28:23
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

Cc Vlastimil

On Mon 31-01-22 17:03:28, Waiman Long wrote:
The page_owner information currently includes the pid of the calling
task. That is useful as long as the task is still running. Otherwise,
the number is meaningless. To have more information about the allocating
tasks that had exited by the time the page_owner information is
retrieved, we need to store the command name of the task.

Add a new comm field into page_owner structure to store the command name
and display it when the page_owner information is retrieved.
I completely agree that pid is effectivelly useless (if not misleading)
but is comm really telling all that much to compensate for the
additional storage required for _each_ page in the system?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <redacted>
---
 mm/page_owner.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
index a471c74c7fe0..485542155483 100644
--- a/mm/page_owner.c
+++ b/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct page_owner {
 	depot_stack_handle_t free_handle;
 	u64 ts_nsec;
 	u64 free_ts_nsec;
+	char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
 	pid_t pid;
 };
 
@@ -146,6 +147,7 @@ void __reset_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned short order)
 		page_owner = get_page_owner(page_ext);
 		page_owner->free_handle = handle;
 		page_owner->free_ts_nsec = free_ts_nsec;
+		page_owner->comm[0] = '\0';
 		page_ext = page_ext_next(page_ext);
 	}
 }
@@ -165,6 +167,8 @@ static inline void __set_page_owner_handle(struct page_ext *page_ext,
 		page_owner->last_migrate_reason = -1;
 		page_owner->pid = current->pid;
 		page_owner->ts_nsec = local_clock();
+		strlcpy(page_owner->comm, current->comm,
+			sizeof(page_owner->comm));
 		__set_bit(PAGE_EXT_OWNER, &page_ext->flags);
 		__set_bit(PAGE_EXT_OWNER_ALLOCATED, &page_ext->flags);
 
@@ -232,6 +236,7 @@ void __folio_copy_owner(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *old)
 	new_page_owner->pid = old_page_owner->pid;
 	new_page_owner->ts_nsec = old_page_owner->ts_nsec;
 	new_page_owner->free_ts_nsec = old_page_owner->ts_nsec;
+	strcpy(new_page_owner->comm, old_page_owner->comm);
 
 	/*
 	 * We don't clear the bit on the old folio as it's going to be freed
@@ -376,10 +381,11 @@ print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ret = scnprintf(kbuf, count,
-			"Page allocated via order %u, mask %#x(%pGg), pid %d, ts %llu ns, free_ts %llu ns\n",
+			"Page allocated via order %u, mask %#x(%pGg), pid %d (%s), ts %llu ns, free_ts %llu ns\n",
 			page_owner->order, page_owner->gfp_mask,
 			&page_owner->gfp_mask, page_owner->pid,
-			page_owner->ts_nsec, page_owner->free_ts_nsec);
+			page_owner->comm, page_owner->ts_nsec,
+			page_owner->free_ts_nsec);
 
 	/* Print information relevant to grouping pages by mobility */
 	pageblock_mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
@@ -446,9 +452,10 @@ void __dump_page_owner(const struct page *page)
 	else
 		pr_alert("page_owner tracks the page as freed\n");
 
-	pr_alert("page last allocated via order %u, migratetype %s, gfp_mask %#x(%pGg), pid %d, ts %llu, free_ts %llu\n",
+	pr_alert("page last allocated via order %u, migratetype %s, gfp_mask %#x(%pGg), pid %d (%s), ts %llu, free_ts %llu\n",
 		 page_owner->order, migratetype_names[mt], gfp_mask, &gfp_mask,
-		 page_owner->pid, page_owner->ts_nsec, page_owner->free_ts_nsec);
+		 page_owner->pid, page_owner->comm, page_owner->ts_nsec,
+		 page_owner->free_ts_nsec);
 
 	handle = READ_ONCE(page_owner->handle);
 	if (!handle)
-- 
2.27.0
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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