Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: debug: print correct information for slab folios

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed May 22 2024 - 08:32:46 EST


On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 04:46:29PM +0900, Sukrit Bhatnagar wrote:
> The function dump_page() prints "anon" even for slab pages.
> This is not correct, especially now that struct slab is separated from
> struct page, and that the slab pages cannot be mapped to userspace.
>
> [ 7.071985] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x102768
> [ 7.072602] head: order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
> [ 7.073085] anon flags: 0x8000000000000840(slab|head|zone=2)
> [ 7.073777] raw: 8000000000000840 ffff8881000419c0 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
>
> This debugging output may be misleading, and it is not easy to understand
> unless we read the source code.
>
> If the folio tests true for slab, do not print information that does not
> apply to it. Instead, print the slab flags stored in the kmem_cache field.
>
> [ 7.248722] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888103e6aa87>
> [ 7.249135] head: order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
> [ 7.249429] slab flags: 0x8000000000000840(slab|head|zone=2)
> [ 7.249664] cache flags: 0x10310(HWCACHE_ALIGN|PANIC|TYPESAFE_BY_RCU|CMPXCHG_DOUBLE)
> [ 7.249999] raw: 8000000000000000 ffffea00040f9a01 ffffea00040f9bc8 dead000000000400

You haven't tested this against the current codebase ...

> @@ -98,6 +101,8 @@ static void __dump_folio(struct folio *folio, struct page *page,
> is_migrate_cma_folio(folio, pfn) ? " CMA" : "");
> if (page_has_type(&folio->page))
> pr_warn("page_type: %pGt\n", &folio->page.page_type);
> + else if (folio_test_slab(folio))
> + pr_warn("cache flags: %pGs\n", &((struct slab *)&folio->page)->slab_cache->flags);
>

.. because page_has_type() is now true for slab; there is no more
PG_slab. I think you also want:

folio_slab(folio)->slab_cache->flags

Anyway, we have print_slab_info() which is currently static in slub.c.
Maybe that needs to become non-static and dump_page() should call that
for slabs?