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Patch series "page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations",
v10.
page_owner is a great debug functionality tool that lets us know about all
pages that have been allocated/freed and their specific stacktrace. This
comes very handy when debugging memory leaks, since with some scripting we
can see the outstanding allocations, which might point to a memory leak.
In my experience, that is one of the most useful cases, but it can get
really tedious to screen through all pages and try to reconstruct the
stack <-> allocated/freed relationship, becoming most of the time a
daunting and slow process when we have tons of allocation/free operations.
This patchset aims to ease that by adding a new functionality into
page_owner. This functionality creates a new directory called
'page_owner_stacks' under 'sys/kernel//debug' with a read-only file called
'show_stacks', which prints out all the stacks followed by their
outstanding number of allocations (being that the times the stacktrace has
allocated but not freed yet). This gives us a clear and a quick overview
of stacks <-> allocated/free.
We take advantage of the new refcount_f field that stack_record struct
gained, and increment/decrement the stack refcount on every
__set_page_owner() (alloc operation) and __reset_page_owner (free
operation) call.
Unfortunately, we cannot use the new stackdepot api STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_GET
because it does not fulfill page_owner needs, meaning we would have to
special case things, at which point makes more sense for page_owner to do
its own {dec,inc}rementing of the stacks. E.g: Using
STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_PUT, once the refcount reaches 0, such stack gets
evicted, so page_owner would lose information.
This patchset also creates a new file called 'set_threshold' within
'page_owner_stacks' directory, and by writing a value to it, the stacks
which refcount is below such value will be filtered out.
A PoC can be found below:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks > page_owner_full_stacks.txt
# head -40 page_owner_full_stacks.txt
prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
get_page_from_freelist+0x801/0x2210
__alloc_pages+0x18b/0x350
alloc_pages_mpol+0x91/0x1f0
folio_alloc+0x14/0x50
filemap_alloc_folio+0xb2/0x100
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x96/0x180
filemap_get_pages+0xfd/0x590
filemap_read+0xcc/0x330
blkdev_read_iter+0xb8/0x150
vfs_read+0x285/0x320
ksys_read+0xa5/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x80/0x160
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
stack_count: 521
prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
get_page_from_freelist+0x801/0x2210
__alloc_pages+0x18b/0x350
alloc_pages_mpol+0x91/0x1f0
folio_alloc+0x14/0x50
filemap_alloc_folio+0xb2/0x100
__filemap_get_folio+0x14a/0x490
ext4_write_begin+0xbd/0x4b0 [ext4]
generic_perform_write+0xc1/0x1e0
ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x68/0xe0 [ext4]
ext4_file_write_iter+0x70/0x740 [ext4]
vfs_write+0x33d/0x420
ksys_write+0xa5/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x80/0x160
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
stack_count: 4609
...
...
# echo 5000 > /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/set_threshold
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks > page_owner_full_stacks_5000.txt
# head -40 page_owner_full_stacks_5000.txt
prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
get_page_from_freelist+0x801/0x2210
__alloc_pages+0x18b/0x350
alloc_pages_mpol+0x91/0x1f0
folio_alloc+0x14/0x50
filemap_alloc_folio+0xb2/0x100
__filemap_get_folio+0x14a/0x490
ext4_write_begin+0xbd/0x4b0 [ext4]
generic_perform_write+0xc1/0x1e0
ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x68/0xe0 [ext4]
ext4_file_write_iter+0x70/0x740 [ext4]
vfs_write+0x33d/0x420
ksys_pwrite64+0x75/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x80/0x160
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
stack_count: 6781
prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
get_page_from_freelist+0x801/0x2210
__alloc_pages+0x18b/0x350
pcpu_populate_chunk+0xec/0x350
pcpu_balance_workfn+0x2d1/0x4a0
process_scheduled_works+0x84/0x380
worker_thread+0x12a/0x2a0
kthread+0xe3/0x110
ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
stack_count: 8641
This patch (of 7):
The very first entry of stack_record gets a handle of 0, but this is wrong
because stackdepot treats a 0-handle as a non-valid one. E.g: See the
check in stack_depot_fetch()
Fix this by adding and offset of 1.
This bug has been lurking since the very beginning of stackdepot, but no
one really cared as it seems. Because of that I am not adding a Fixes
tag.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215215907.20121-1-osalvador@suse.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215215907.20121-2-osalvador@suse.de
Co-developed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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