Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2021-07-13 12:03:54
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Hi Oliver, Yogesh, On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:08 PM [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Oliver Glitta <redacted> Many stack traces are similar so there are many similar arrays. Stackdepot saves each unique stack only once. Replace field addrs in struct track with depot_stack_handle_t handle. Use stackdepot to save stack trace. The benefits are smaller memory overhead and possibility to aggregate per-cache statistics in the future using the stackdepot handle instead of matching stacks manually. Signed-off-by: Oliver Glitta <redacted>
Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 788691464c294553 ("mm/slub:
use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects") in v5.14-rc1.
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--- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig@@ -1891,6 +1891,7 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG default y bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT depends on SLUB && SYSFS + select STACKDEPOT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT help SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
This change increases memory consumption by 4 MiB (or more, see below).
Looking at lib/Kconfig:
| config STACK_HASH_ORDER
| int "stack depot hash size (12 => 4KB, 20 => 1024KB)"
The sizes reported here are not correct, as the actual memory consumption
is not STACK_HAS_ORDER bytes, but STACK_HAS_ORDER pointers.
Hence they're off by a factor of 4 or 8.
| range 12 20
| default 20
Does this really have to default to the maximum value?
| depends on STACKDEPOT
| help
| Select the hash size as a power of 2 for the stackdepot hash table.
| Choose a lower value to reduce the memory impact.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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