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| author | Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com> | 2025-10-01 14:56:11 -0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-11-16 17:27:59 -0800 |
| commit | 0de9a442eeba4a6435af74120822b10b12ab8449 (patch) | |
| tree | 882a71a054bdcd31c1fa78c4b18ee782cf27f6a4 /Documentation/mm | |
| parent | 5513cfbcf4da97ba0476d63e7670fdfcde59580f (diff) | |
mm/page_owner: update Documentation with 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'
Describe and provide examples for 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001175611.575861-6-mfo@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 32 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst index 3a45a20fc05a..6b12f3b007ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst @@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ enabled. Other usages are more than welcome. 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. +allocation and free operation. It's also possible to show only a numeric +identifier of all the stacks (without stack traces) and their number of +allocated base pages (faster to read and parse, eg, for monitoring) that +can be matched with stacks later (show_handles and show_stacks_handles). 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 @@ -116,6 +119,33 @@ Usage nr_base_pages: 20824 ... + cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_handles > handles_7000.txt + cat handles_7000.txt + handle: 42 + nr_base_pages: 20824 + ... + + cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks_handles > stacks_handles.txt + cat stacks_handles.txt + 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 + handle: 42 + ... + cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt ./page_owner_sort page_owner_full.txt sorted_page_owner.txt |