Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] vsprintf: dump full information of page flags in pGp

[Yafang Shao]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:05 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 19:56 +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > Currently the pGp only shows the names of page flags, rather than
> > the full information including section, node, zone, last cpupid and
> > kasan tag. While it is not easy to parse these information manually
> > because there're so many flavors. Let's interpret them in pGp as well.
> >
> > - Before the patch,
> > [ 6343.396602] Slab 0x000000004382e02b objects=33 used=3 fp=0x000000009ae06ffc flags=0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head)
> >
> > - After the patch,
> > [ 6871.296131] Slab 0x00000000c0e19a37 objects=33 used=3 fp=0x00000000c4902159 flags=0x17ffffc0010200(Node 0,Zone 2,Lastcpupid 0x1fffff,slab|head)
>
> While debugfs is not an ABI, this format is exported in debugfs to
> userspace via mm/page_owner.c read_page_owner/print_page_owner.
>

Right, the page_owner will be affected by this  change.

> Does changing the output format matter to anyone?
>

The user tools which parse the page_owner may be affected.
If we don't want to affect the userspace tools, I think we can make a
little change in page_owner as follows,

    unsigned long masked_flags = page->flags &  (BIT(NR_PAGEFLAGS) - 1);
    snprintf("..., %#lx(%pGp)\n", page->flags, &masked_flags);

> > diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
> []
> > +static
> > +char *format_page_flags(char *buf, char *end, unsigned long page_flags)
> > +{
> > +     unsigned long flags = page_flags & ((1UL << NR_PAGEFLAGS) - 1);
> > +     int size = ARRAY_SIZE(pfl);
>
> There's no real value in used-once variables.
>
> > +     bool separator = false;
> > +     int i;
> > +
> > +     for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
>
> Use ARRAY_SIZE here instead
>

Sure

>         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(pfl); i++) {
>
> > +             if (pfl[i].width == 0)
> > +                     continue;
> > +
> > +             if (separator) {
> > +                     if (buf < end)
> > +                             *buf = ',';
> > +                     buf++;
> > +             }
> > +
> > +
> > +             buf = string(buf, end, pfl[i].name, *pfl[i].spec);
> > +
> > +             buf = number(buf, end, (page_flags >> pfl[i].shift) & pfl[i].mask,
> > +                          *pfl[i].spec);
> > +             separator = true;
> > +     }
>
> Style question:
> Might this array be more intelligible with pointers instead of indexes?

Good suggestion!
I will change it in the next version.

> Something like:
>
>         struct page_flags_layout *p;
>
>         for (p = pfl; p < pfl + ARRAY_SIZE(pfl); p++) {
>                 if (p->width == 0)
>                         continue;
>

>                 if (p > pfl) {
>                         if (buf < end)
>                                 *buf = ',';
>                         buf++;
>                 }

It doesn't work, because there's a 'continue' above, meaning that the
p may be greater than pfl without doing anything.

>
>                 buf = string(buf, end, p->name, *p->spec);
>                 buf = number(buf, end, (page_flags >> p->shift) & p->mask, *p->spec);
>         }
>
> > +
> > +     if (flags) {
>
> Maybe:
>
>         if (page_flags & (BIT(NR_PAGEFLAGS) - 1)) {
>

Sure.

> > +             if (buf < end)
> > +                     *buf = ',';
> > +             buf++;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     return buf;
> > +}
> > +
>
>


--
Thanks
Yafang