Re: [RFC PATCH] vmalloc: show more detail info in vmallocinfo for clarify

From: Tim Chen
Date: Tue May 30 2017 - 20:56:08 EST


On 05/19/2017 11:47 PM, Yisheng Xie wrote:
> When ioremap a 67112960 bytes vm_area with the vmallocinfo:
> [..]
> 0xec79b000-0xec7fa000 389120 ftl_add_mtd+0x4d0/0x754 pages=94 vmalloc
> 0xec800000-0xecbe1000 4067328 kbox_proc_mem_write+0x104/0x1c4 phys=8b520000 ioremap
>
> we get result:
> 0xf1000000-0xf5001000 67112960 devm_ioremap+0x38/0x7c phys=40000000 ioremap
>
> For the align for ioremap must be less than '1 << IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER':
> if (flags & VM_IOREMAP)
> align = 1ul << clamp_t(int, get_count_order_long(size),
> PAGE_SHIFT, IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER);
>
> So it makes idiot like me a litter puzzle why jump the vm_area from
> 0xec800000-0xecbe1000 to 0xf1000000-0xf5001000, and leave
> 0xed000000-0xf1000000 as a big hole.
>
> This is to show all of vm_area, including which is freeing but still in
> vmap_area_list, to make it more clear about why we will get
> 0xf1000000-0xf5001000 int the above case. And we will get the
> vmallocinfo like:
> [..]
> 0xec79b000-0xec7fa000 389120 ftl_add_mtd+0x4d0/0x754 pages=94 vmalloc
> 0xec800000-0xecbe1000 4067328 kbox_proc_mem_write+0x104/0x1c4 phys=8b520000 ioremap
> [..]
> 0xece7c000-0xece7e000 8192 freeing vm_area
> 0xece7e000-0xece83000 20480 vm_map_ram
> 0xf0099000-0xf00aa000 69632 vm_map_ram
> 0xf1000000-0xf5001000 67112960 devm_ioremap+0x38/0x7c phys=40000000 ioremap
> after apply this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmalloc.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index b52aeed..dbb24fc 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ unsigned long vmalloc_to_pfn(const void *vmalloc_addr)
>
> /*** Global kva allocator ***/
>
> +#define VM_LAZY_FREE 0x02
> #define VM_VM_AREA 0x04
>
> static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(vmap_area_lock);
> @@ -1486,6 +1487,7 @@ struct vm_struct *remove_vm_area(const void *addr)
> spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock);
> va->vm = NULL;
> va->flags &= ~VM_VM_AREA;
> + va->flags |= VM_LAZY_FREE;
> spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock);
>
> vmap_debug_free_range(va->va_start, va->va_end);
> @@ -2684,8 +2686,14 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
> * s_show can encounter race with remove_vm_area, !VM_VM_AREA on
> * behalf of vmap area is being tear down or vm_map_ram allocation.
> */
> - if (!(va->flags & VM_VM_AREA))
> + if (!(va->flags & VM_VM_AREA)) {
> + seq_printf(m, "0x%pK-0x%pK %7ld %s\n",
> + (void *)va->va_start, (void *)va->va_end,
> + va->va_end - va->va_start,
> + va->flags & VM_LAZY_FREE ? "freeing vm_area" : "vm_map_ram");

Will be clearer to say "unpurged vm_area" instead of "freeing vm_area".

Thanks.

Tim