12 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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Page owner uses the page_ext structure to keep meta-information for every
page in the system. The structure also contains a field of type 'struct
stack_trace', page owner uses this field during invocation of the function
save_stack_trace. It is easy to notice that keeping a copy of this
structure for every page in the system is very inefficiently in terms of
memory.The patch removes this unnecessary field of page_ext and forces page owner
to use a stack_trace structure allocated on the stack.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use struct initializers]
Signed-off-by: Sergei Rogachev
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Dec, 2014
2 commits
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Extended memory to store page owner information is initialized some time
later than that page allocator starts. Until initialization, many pages
can be allocated and they have no owner information. This make debugging
using page owner harder, so some fixup will be helpful.This patch fixes up this situation by setting fake owner information
immediately after page extension is initialized. Information doesn't tell
the right owner, but, at least, it can tell whether page is allocated or
not, more correctly.On my testing, this patch catches 13343 early allocated pages, although
they are mostly allocated from page extension feature. Anyway, after
then, there is no page left that it is allocated and has no page owner
flag.Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is the page owner tracking code which is introduced so far ago. It
is resident on Andrew's tree, though, nobody tried to upstream so it
remain as is. Our company uses this feature actively to debug memory leak
or to find a memory hogger so I decide to upstream this feature.This functionality help us to know who allocates the page. When
allocating a page, we store some information about allocation in extra
memory. Later, if we need to know status of all pages, we can get and
analyze it from this stored information.In previous version of this feature, extra memory is statically defined in
struct page, but, in this version, extra memory is allocated outside of
struct page. It enables us to turn on/off this feature at boottime
without considerable memory waste.Although we already have tracepoint for tracing page allocation/free,
using it to analyze page owner is rather complex. We need to enlarge the
trace buffer for preventing overlapping until userspace program launched.
And, launched program continually dump out the trace buffer for later
analysis and it would change system behaviour with more possibility rather
than just keeping it in memory, so bad for debug.Moreover, we can use page_owner feature further for various purposes. For
example, we can use it for fragmentation statistics implemented in this
patch. And, I also plan to implement some CMA failure debugging feature
using this interface.I'd like to give the credit for all developers contributed this feature,
but, it's not easy because I don't know exact history. Sorry about that.
Below is people who has "Signed-off-by" in the patches in Andrew's tree.Contributor:
Alexander Nyberg
Mel Gorman
Dave Hansen
Minchan Kim
Michal Nazarewicz
Andrew Morton
Jungsoo SonSigned-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
