From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: paulmck@kernel.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
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fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, joel@joelfernandes.org,
iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, andrii@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 sl-b 3/5] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 18:51:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c25ca09-ec43-df31-a5ba-476397637a53@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209011303.32737-3-paulmck@kernel.org>
On 12/9/20 2:13 AM, paulmck@kernel.org wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
>
> This commit adds vmalloc() support to mem_dump_obj(). Note that the
> vmalloc_dump_obj() function combines the checking and dumping, in
> contrast with the split between kmem_valid_obj() and kmem_dump_obj().
> The reason for the difference is that the checking in the vmalloc()
> case involves acquiring a global lock, and redundant acquisitions of
> global locks should be avoided, even on not-so-fast paths.
>
> Note that this change causes on-stack variables to be reported as
> vmalloc() storage from kernel_clone() or similar, depending on the degree
> of inlining that your compiler does. This is likely more helpful than
> the earlier "non-paged (local) memory".
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
> Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
...
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -3431,6 +3431,18 @@ void pcpu_free_vm_areas(struct vm_struct **vms, int nr_vms)
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
>
> +bool vmalloc_dump_obj(void *object)
> +{
> + struct vm_struct *vm;
> + void *objp = (void *)PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)object);
> +
> + vm = find_vm_area(objp);
> + if (!vm)
> + return false;
> + pr_cont(" vmalloc allocated at %pS\n", vm->caller);
Would it be useful to print the vm area boundaries too?
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
> __acquires(&vmap_purge_lock)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-09 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-05 0:40 [PATCH RFC sl-b] Export return addresses for better diagnostics Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 1/6] mm: Add kmem_last_alloc() to return last allocation for memory block paulmck
2020-12-07 9:02 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-07 17:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-08 8:57 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-08 15:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 2/6] mm: Add kmem_last_alloc_errstring() to provide more kmem_last_alloc() info paulmck
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 3/6] rcu: Make call_rcu() print allocation address of double-freed callback paulmck
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 4/6] mm: Create kmem_last_alloc_stack() to provide stack trace in slub paulmck
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 5/6] percpu_ref: Print allocator upon reference-count underflow paulmck
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 6/6] percpu_ref: Print stack trace " paulmck
2020-12-09 1:11 ` [PATCH RFC v2 sl-b] Export return addresses etc. for better diagnostics Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 1/5] mm: Add mem_dump_obj() to print source of memory block paulmck
2020-12-09 5:36 ` kernel test robot
2020-12-09 16:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 8:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 14:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 17:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 17:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 17:28 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-09 23:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-10 10:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-10 19:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-10 12:04 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-10 23:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 2/5] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle NULL and zero-sized pointers paulmck
2020-12-09 17:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-10 3:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 3/5] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory paulmck
2020-12-09 17:51 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2020-12-09 19:39 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-12-09 23:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-10 10:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-09 19:36 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-12-09 19:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 20:04 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-12-09 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 4/5] rcu: Make call_rcu() print mem_dump_obj() info for double-freed callback paulmck
2020-12-09 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 5/5] percpu_ref: Dump mem_dump_obj() info upon reference-count underflow paulmck
2020-12-11 1:19 ` [PATCH RFC v2 sl-b] Export return addresses etc. for better diagnostics Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-11 1:19 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 1/6] mm: Add mem_dump_obj() to print source of memory block paulmck
2020-12-11 2:22 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-11 3:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-11 3:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-11 6:58 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-11 16:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-11 6:54 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-11 1:19 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 2/6] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle NULL and zero-sized pointers paulmck
2020-12-11 1:20 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 3/6] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory paulmck
2020-12-11 1:20 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 4/6] mm: Make mem_obj_dump() vmalloc() dumps include start and length paulmck
2020-12-11 1:20 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 5/6] rcu: Make call_rcu() print mem_dump_obj() info for double-freed callback paulmck
2020-12-11 1:20 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 6/6] percpu_ref: Dump mem_dump_obj() info upon reference-count underflow paulmck
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