1. 12 2月, 2015 1 次提交
  2. 14 12月, 2014 3 次提交
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      mm/page_owner: keep track of page owners · 48c96a36
      Joonsoo Kim 提交于
      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 <alexn@dsv.su.se>
      Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
      Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
      Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
      Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      48c96a36
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      mm/debug-pagealloc: prepare boottime configurable on/off · e30825f1
      Joonsoo Kim 提交于
      Until now, debug-pagealloc needs extra flags in struct page, so we need to
      recompile whole source code when we decide to use it.  This is really
      painful, because it takes some time to recompile and sometimes rebuild is
      not possible due to third party module depending on struct page.  So, we
      can't use this good feature in many cases.
      
      Now, we have the page extension feature that allows us to insert extra
      flags to outside of struct page.  This gets rid of third party module
      issue mentioned above.  And, this allows us to determine if we need extra
      memory for this page extension in boottime.  With these property, we can
      avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime with low computational overhead in
      the kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.  This will help our
      development process greatly.
      
      This patch is the preparation step to achive above goal.  debug-pagealloc
      originally uses extra field of struct page, but, after this patch, it will
      use field of struct page_ext.  Because memory for page_ext is allocated
      later than initialization of page allocator in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, we should
      disable debug-pagealloc feature temporarily until initialization of
      page_ext.  This patch implements this.
      Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
      Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
      Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e30825f1
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      mm/page_ext: resurrect struct page extending code for debugging · eefa864b
      Joonsoo Kim 提交于
      When we debug something, we'd like to insert some information to every
      page.  For this purpose, we sometimes modify struct page itself.  But,
      this has drawbacks.  First, it requires re-compile.  This makes us
      hesitate to use the powerful debug feature so development process is
      slowed down.  And, second, sometimes it is impossible to rebuild the
      kernel due to third party module dependency.  At third, system behaviour
      would be largely different after re-compile, because it changes size of
      struct page greatly and this structure is accessed by every part of
      kernel.  Keeping this as it is would be better to reproduce errornous
      situation.
      
      This feature is intended to overcome above mentioned problems.  This
      feature allocates memory for extended data per page in certain place
      rather than the struct page itself.  This memory can be accessed by the
      accessor functions provided by this code.  During the boot process, it
      checks whether allocation of huge chunk of memory is needed or not.  If
      not, it avoids allocating memory at all.  With this advantage, we can
      include this feature into the kernel in default and can avoid rebuild and
      solve related problems.
      
      Until now, memcg uses this technique.  But, now, memcg decides to embed
      their variable to struct page itself and it's code to extend struct page
      has been removed.  I'd like to use this code to develop debug feature, so
      this patch resurrect it.
      
      To help these things to work well, this patch introduces two callbacks for
      clients.  One is the need callback which is mandatory if user wants to
      avoid useless memory allocation at boot-time.  The other is optional, init
      callback, which is used to do proper initialization after memory is
      allocated.  Detailed explanation about purpose of these functions is in
      code comment.  Please refer it.
      
      Others are completely same with previous extension code in memcg.
      Signed-off-by: NJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
      Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
      Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      eefa864b