Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] slub: Enable backtrace for create/delete points.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Thu Jul 07 2011 - 15:51:48 EST


On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 11:36 -0700, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch attempts to grab a backtrace for the creation
> and deletion points of the slub object. When a fault is
> detected, we can then get a better idea of where the item
> was deleted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v3: Don't rename addr to caddr.
> Move 'int i' into #ifdef block to ensure there is no
> warning when #ifdef'd code is not compiled.
>
> :100644 100644 35f351f... c52fa60... M mm/slub.c
> mm/slub.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 35f351f..c52fa60 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -191,8 +191,12 @@ static LIST_HEAD(slab_caches);
> /*
> * Tracking user of a slab.
> */
> +#define TRACK_ADDRS_COUNT 16
> struct track {
> unsigned long addr; /* Called from address */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
> + unsigned long addrs[TRACK_ADDRS_COUNT]; /* Called from address */
> +#endif
> int cpu; /* Was running on cpu */
> int pid; /* Pid context */
> unsigned long when; /* When did the operation occur */
> @@ -420,6 +424,24 @@ static void set_track(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object,
> struct track *p = get_track(s, object, alloc);
>
> if (addr) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
> + struct stack_trace trace;

This needed <linux/stacktrace.h> - I fixed it myself.

> + int i;
> +
> + trace.nr_entries = 0;
> + trace.max_entries = TRACK_ADDRS_COUNT;
> + trace.entries = p->addrs;
> + trace.skip = 3;
> + save_stack_trace(&trace);
> +
> + /* See rant in lockdep.c */
> + if (trace.nr_entries != 0 &&
> + trace.entries[trace.nr_entries - 1] == ULONG_MAX)
> + trace.nr_entries--;
> +
> + for (i = trace.nr_entries; i < TRACK_ADDRS_COUNT; i++)
> + p->addrs[i] = 0;
> +#endif
> p->addr = addr;
> p->cpu = smp_processor_id();
> p->pid = current->pid;
> @@ -444,6 +466,16 @@ static void print_track(const char *s, struct track *t)
>
> printk(KERN_ERR "INFO: %s in %pS age=%lu cpu=%u pid=%d\n",
> s, (void *)t->addr, jiffies - t->when, t->cpu, t->pid);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
> + {
> + int i;
> + for (i = 0; i < TRACK_ADDRS_COUNT; i++)
> + if (t->addrs[i])
> + printk(KERN_ERR "\t%pS\n", (void *)t->addrs[i]);
> + else
> + break;
> + }
> +#endif
> }
>
> static void print_tracking(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)


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