[RFC 03/11] mm: debug: dump VMA into a string rather than directly on screen

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Tue Apr 14 2015 - 16:58:47 EST


This lets us use regular string formatting code to dump VMAs, use it
in VM_BUG_ON_VMA instead of just printing it to screen as well.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mmdebug.h | 8 ++++++--
lib/vsprintf.c | 7 +++++--
mm/debug.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmdebug.h b/include/linux/mmdebug.h
index 877ef22..506e405 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmdebug.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmdebug.h
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ struct mm_struct;
extern void dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason);
extern void dump_page_badflags(struct page *page, const char *reason,
unsigned long badflags);
-void dump_vma(const struct vm_area_struct *vma);
void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm);

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+char *format_vma(const struct vm_area_struct *vma, char *buf, char *end);
#define VM_BUG_ON(cond) BUG_ON(cond)
#define VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(cond, page) \
do { \
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm);
#define VM_BUG_ON_VMA(cond, vma) \
do { \
if (unlikely(cond)) { \
- dump_vma(vma); \
+ pr_emerg("%pZv", vma); \
BUG(); \
} \
} while (0)
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm);
#define VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(cond) WARN_ON_ONCE(cond)
#define VM_WARN_ONCE(cond, format...) WARN_ONCE(cond, format)
#else
+static char *format_vma(const struct vm_area_struct *vma, char *buf, char *end)
+{
+ return buf;
+}
#define VM_BUG_ON(cond) BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID(cond)
#define VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(cond, page) VM_BUG_ON(cond)
#define VM_BUG_ON_VMA(cond, vma) VM_BUG_ON(cond)
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 809d19d..b4800c1 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1376,10 +1376,12 @@ char *comm_name(char *buf, char *end, struct task_struct *tsk,
}

static noinline_for_stack
-char *mm_pointer(char *buf, char *end, struct task_struct *tsk,
+char *mm_pointer(char *buf, char *end, const void *ptr,
struct printf_spec spec, const char *fmt)
{
switch (fmt[1]) {
+ case 'v':
+ return format_vma(ptr, buf, end);
}

return buf;
@@ -1473,7 +1475,8 @@ int kptr_restrict __read_mostly;
* (legacy clock framework) of the clock
* - 'Cr' For a clock, it prints the current rate of the clock
* - 'T' task_struct->comm
- * - 'Z' Outputs a readable version of a type of memory management struct.
+ * - 'Z[v]' Outputs a readable version of a type of memory management struct:
+ * v struct vm_area_struct
*
* Note: The difference between 'S' and 'F' is that on ia64 and ppc64
* function pointers are really function descriptors, which contain a
diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
index c9f7dd7..82e2e1c 100644
--- a/mm/debug.c
+++ b/mm/debug.c
@@ -186,20 +186,22 @@ static const struct trace_print_flags vmaflags_names[] = {
{VM_MERGEABLE, "mergeable" },
};

-void dump_vma(const struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+char *format_vma(const struct vm_area_struct *vma, char *buf, char *end)
{
- pr_emerg("vma %p start %p end %p\n"
- "next %p prev %p mm %p\n"
- "prot %lx anon_vma %p vm_ops %p\n"
- "pgoff %lx file %p private_data %p\n",
- vma, (void *)vma->vm_start, (void *)vma->vm_end, vma->vm_next,
- vma->vm_prev, vma->vm_mm,
- (unsigned long)pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot),
- vma->anon_vma, vma->vm_ops, vma->vm_pgoff,
- vma->vm_file, vma->vm_private_data);
- dump_flags(vma->vm_flags, vmaflags_names, ARRAY_SIZE(vmaflags_names));
+ buf += snprintf(buf, buf > end ? 0 : end - buf,
+ "vma %p start %p end %p\n"
+ "next %p prev %p mm %p\n"
+ "prot %lx anon_vma %p vm_ops %p\n"
+ "pgoff %lx file %p private_data %p\n",
+ vma, (void *)vma->vm_start, (void *)vma->vm_end, vma->vm_next,
+ vma->vm_prev, vma->vm_mm,
+ (unsigned long)pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot),
+ vma->anon_vma, vma->vm_ops, vma->vm_pgoff,
+ vma->vm_file, vma->vm_private_data);
+
+ return format_flags(vma->vm_flags, vmaflags_names, ARRAY_SIZE(vmaflags_names),
+ buf, end);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_vma);

void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
{
--
1.7.10.4

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