Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_owner: Dump memcg information

[Waiman Long]

On 1/28/22 16:22, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 02:56:42PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> > It was found that a number of offlined memcgs were not freed because
> > they were pinned by some charged pages that were present. Even "echo
> > 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" wasn't able to free those pages. These
> > offlined but not freed memcgs tend to increase in number over time with
> > the side effect that percpu memory consumption as shown in /proc/meminfo
> > also increases over time.
> >
> > In order to find out more information about those pages that pin
> > offlined memcgs, the page_owner feature is extended to dump memory
> > cgroup information especially whether the cgroup is offlined or not.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   mm/page_owner.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
> > index c52ce9d6bc3b..e5d8c642296b 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_owner.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_owner.c
> > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> >   #include <linux/migrate.h>
> >   #include <linux/stackdepot.h>
> >   #include <linux/seq_file.h>
> > +#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
> >   #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
> >   
> >   #include "internal.h"
> > @@ -339,6 +340,7 @@ print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
> >   		depot_stack_handle_t handle)
> >   {
> >   	int ret = 0, pageblock_mt, page_mt;
> > +	unsigned long __maybe_unused memcg_data;
> >   	char *kbuf;
> >   
> >   	count = min_t(size_t, count, PAGE_SIZE);
> > @@ -371,6 +373,32 @@ print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
> >   			"Page has been migrated, last migrate reason: %s\n",
> >   			migrate_reason_names[page_owner->last_migrate_reason]);
> >   
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Look for memcg information and print it out
> > +	 */
> > +	memcg_data = READ_ONCE(page->memcg_data);
> > +	if (memcg_data) {
> > +		struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page_memcg_check(page);
> > +		bool onlined;
> > +		char name[80];
> > +
> > +		if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS)
> > +			SNPRINTF(kbuf, count, ret, err, "Slab cache page\n");
> > +
> > +		if (!memcg)
> > +			goto copy_out;
> > +
> > +		onlined = (memcg->css.flags & CSS_ONLINE);
> > +		cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup, name, sizeof(name) - 1);
> > +		SNPRINTF(kbuf, count, ret, err, "Charged %sto %smemcg %s\n",
>                                                          ^^^
> 						Extra specifier?
>
> Did this compile without warnings?

Yes, there was no warning.

Cheers,
Longmna

> Ira
>
> > +			PageMemcgKmem(page) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
> > +			onlined ? "" : "offlined ", name);
> > +	}
> > +
> > +copy_out:
> > +#endif
> > +
> >   	SNPRINTF(kbuf, count, ret, err, "\n");
> >   
> >   	if (copy_to_user(buf, kbuf, ret))
> > --
> > 2.27.0