From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Al Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
"Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>,
"Ira Weiny" <ira.weiny@intel.com>, "Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>,
"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
"Mike Kravetz" <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] mm: dump_page: print head page's refcount, for compound pages
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:59:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200129225957.GH6615@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b74e8aa9-fcfd-0340-594c-61f185a0ae65@nvidia.com>
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 02:26:06PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 1/29/20 3:25 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 07:24:10PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> >> When debugging a problem that involves compound pages, it is extremely
> >> helpful if dump_page() reports not only the page->_refcount, but also
> >> the refcount of the head page of the compound page. That's because the
> >> head page collects refcounts for the entire compound page.
> >>
> >> Therefore, enhance dump_page() so as to print out the refcount of the
> >> head page of a compound page.
> >>
> >> This approach (printing information about a struct page that is not the
> >> struct page that was passed into dump_page()) has a precedent:
> >> compound_mapcount is already being printed.
> >
> > refcount on a tail must always be 0. I think we should only print it when
> > it is non-zero, emphasizing this fact with a standalone message.
> >
>
> Hi Kirill,
>
> Yes, good point, that sounds like just the right balance. And it avoids adding
> a new item to print in the common case, which is very nice. Here's what I've
> changed it to for the next version (I'll also rewrite the commit description
> accordingly):
>
>
> diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
> index a90da5337c14..3a45e2b77de0 100644
> --- a/mm/debug.c
> +++ b/mm/debug.c
> @@ -75,12 +75,17 @@ void __dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason)
> */
> mapcount = PageSlab(page) ? 0 : page_mapcount(page);
>
> - if (PageCompound(page))
> - pr_warn("page:%px refcount:%d mapcount:%d mapping:%px "
> - "index:%#lx compound_mapcount: %d\n",
> - page, page_ref_count(page), mapcount,
> + if (PageCompound(page)) {
> + pr_warn("page:%px compound refcount:%d mapcount:%d mapping:%px "
> + "index:%#lx compound_mapcount:%d\n",
> + page, page_ref_count(compound_head(page)), mapcount,
> page->mapping, page_to_pgoff(page),
> compound_mapcount(page));
> +
> + if (page != compound_head(page) && page_ref_count(page) != 0)
> + pr_warn("page:%px PROBLEM: non-zero refcount (==%d) on "
> + "this tail page\n", page, page_ref_count(page));
> + }
> else
> pr_warn("page:%px refcount:%d mapcount:%d mapping:%px index:%#lx\n",
> page, page_ref_count(page), mapcount,
I have a hunk in my current tree which looks like this:
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ void __dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason)
pr_warn("page:%px refcount:%d mapcount:%d mapping:%px index:%#lx
\n",
page, page_ref_count(page), mapcount,
page->mapping, page_to_pgoff(page));
+ if (PageTail(page)) {
+ struct page *head = compound_head(page);
+ pr_warn("head:%px mapping:%px index:%#lx\n",
+ head, head->mapping, page_to_pgoff(head));
+ }
if (PageKsm(page))
pr_warn("ksm flags: %#lx(%pGp)\n", page->flags, &page->flags);
else if (PageAnon(page))
I wonder if we can combine these two patches in some more useful way?
I also think we probably want a sanity check that 'head' and 'page'
are within a sane range of each other (ie head < page and head +
MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES > page) to protect against a struct page that contains
complete garbage.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-29 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-29 3:24 [PATCH v2 0/8] mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages (follow on from v12) John Hubbard
2020-01-29 3:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] mm: dump_page: print head page's refcount, for compound pages John Hubbard
2020-01-29 11:25 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-29 22:26 ` John Hubbard
2020-01-29 22:59 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-01-30 6:23 ` John Hubbard
2020-01-30 6:30 ` John Hubbard
2020-01-29 3:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] mm/gup: split get_user_pages_remote() into two routines John Hubbard
2020-01-29 3:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] mm/gup: pass a flags arg to __gup_device_* functions John Hubbard
2020-01-29 3:24 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages John Hubbard
2020-01-29 13:51 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-30 6:44 ` John Hubbard
2020-01-30 11:31 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-31 3:19 ` John Hubbard
2020-01-29 3:24 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] mm/gup: page->hpage_pinned_refcount: exact pin counts for huge pages John Hubbard
2020-01-29 3:24 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] mm/gup: /proc/vmstat: pin_user_pages (FOLL_PIN) reporting John Hubbard
2020-01-29 3:24 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] mm/gup_benchmark: support pin_user_pages() and related calls John Hubbard
2020-01-29 3:24 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/vm: run_vmtests: invoke gup_benchmark with basic FOLL_PIN coverage John Hubbard
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