Re: [PATCH] mm, kmemleak: Little optimization while scanning

From: Wei Yang
Date: Thu Dec 06 2018 - 23:15:35 EST


On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 02:19:18PM +0100, Oscar Salvador wrote:
>kmemleak_scan() goes through all online nodes and tries
>to scan all used pages.
>We can do better and use pfn_to_online_page(), so in case we have
>CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG, offlined pages will be skiped automatically.
>For boxes where CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not present, pfn_to_online_page()
>will fallback to pfn_valid().
>
>Another little optimization is to check if the page belongs to the node
>we are currently checking, so in case we have nodes interleaved we will
>not check the same pfn multiple times.
>
>I ran some tests:
>
>Add some memory to node1 and node2 making it interleaved:
>
>(qemu) object_add memory-backend-ram,id=ram0,size=1G
>(qemu) device_add pc-dimm,id=dimm0,memdev=ram0,node=1
>(qemu) object_add memory-backend-ram,id=ram1,size=1G
>(qemu) device_add pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=ram1,node=2
>(qemu) object_add memory-backend-ram,id=ram2,size=1G
>(qemu) device_add pc-dimm,id=dimm2,memdev=ram2,node=1
>
>Then, we offline that memory:
> # for i in {32..39} ; do echo "offline" > /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory$i/state;done
> # for i in {48..55} ; do echo "offline" > /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory$i/state;don
> # for i in {40..47} ; do echo "offline" > /sys/devices/system/node/node2/memory$i/state;done
>
>And we run kmemleak_scan:
>
> # echo "scan" > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>
>before the patch:
>
>kmemleak: time spend: 41596 us
>
>after the patch:
>
>kmemleak: time spend: 34899 us
>
>Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
>---
> mm/kmemleak.c | 10 +++++++---
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
>index 877de4fa0720..5ce1e6a46d77 100644
>--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
>+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
>@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@
> #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
> #include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
>
>+

This one maybe not necessary.

> /*
> * Kmemleak configuration and common defines.
> */
>@@ -1547,11 +1548,14 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
> unsigned long pfn;
>
> for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
>- struct page *page;
>+ struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);
>+
>+ if (!page)
>+ continue;
>
>- if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
>+ /* only scan pages belonging to this node */
>+ if (page_to_nid(page) != i)
> continue;

Not farmiliar with this situation. Is this often?

>- page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> /* only scan if page is in use */
> if (page_count(page) == 0)
> continue;
>--
>2.13.7

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