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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst index 0d0334cd5179..3a45a20fc05a 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst @@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ fragmentation statistics can be obtained through gfp flag information of each page. It is already implemented and activated if page owner is enabled. Other usages are more than welcome. -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. +It can also be used to show all the stacks and their current number of +allocated base pages, 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=on" to your boot cmdline. If the kernel is built @@ -75,42 +75,45 @@ Usage 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 + post_alloc_hook+0x177/0x1a0 + get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80 + __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0 + allocate_slab+0xbc/0x3f0 + ___slab_alloc+0x528/0x8a0 + kmem_cache_alloc+0x224/0x3b0 + sk_prot_alloc+0x58/0x1a0 + sk_alloc+0x32/0x4f0 + inet_create+0x427/0xb50 + __sock_create+0x2e4/0x650 + inet_ctl_sock_create+0x30/0x180 + igmp_net_init+0xc1/0x130 + ops_init+0x167/0x410 + setup_net+0x304/0xa60 + copy_net_ns+0x29b/0x4a0 + create_new_namespaces+0x4a1/0x820 + nr_base_pages: 16 ... ... 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 + post_alloc_hook+0x177/0x1a0 + get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80 + __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0 + alloc_pages_mpol+0x22e/0x490 + folio_alloc+0xd5/0x110 + filemap_alloc_folio+0x78/0x230 + page_cache_ra_order+0x287/0x6f0 + filemap_get_pages+0x517/0x1160 + filemap_read+0x304/0x9f0 + xfs_file_buffered_read+0xe6/0x1d0 [xfs] + xfs_file_read_iter+0x1f0/0x380 [xfs] + __kernel_read+0x3b9/0x730 + kernel_read_file+0x309/0x4d0 + __do_sys_finit_module+0x381/0x730 + do_syscall_64+0x8d/0x150 + entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x62/0x6a + nr_base_pages: 20824 ... cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt |