Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Oliver, Yogesh,

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:08 PM <glittao@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Oliver Glitta <glittao@gmail.com>
>
> Many stack traces are similar so there are many similar arrays.
> Stackdepot saves each unique stack only once.
>
> Replace field addrs in struct track with depot_stack_handle_t handle.
> Use stackdepot to save stack trace.
>
> The benefits are smaller memory overhead and possibility to aggregate
> per-cache statistics in the future using the stackdepot handle
> instead of matching stacks manually.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Glitta <glittao@gmail.com>

Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 788691464c294553 ("mm/slub:
use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects") in v5.14-rc1.

> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -1891,6 +1891,7 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG
>         default y
>         bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EXPERT
>         depends on SLUB && SYSFS
> +       select STACKDEPOT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
>         help
>           SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
>           result in significant savings in code size. This also disables

This change increases memory consumption by 4 MiB (or more, see below).

Looking at lib/Kconfig:

|   config STACK_HASH_ORDER
|           int "stack depot hash size (12 => 4KB, 20 => 1024KB)"

The sizes reported here are not correct, as the actual memory consumption
is not STACK_HAS_ORDER bytes, but STACK_HAS_ORDER pointers.
Hence they're off by a factor of 4 or 8.

|           range 12 20
|           default 20

Does this really have to default to the maximum value?

|           depends on STACKDEPOT
|           help
|            Select the hash size as a power of 2 for the stackdepot hash table.
|            Choose a lower value to reduce the memory impact.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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