linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_ref: add tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation

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Message-ID: <xa1tegfxg7vg.fsf@mina86.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:02:43 +0100
From:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_ref: add tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation

On Mon, Nov 09 2015, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> CMA allocation should be guaranteed to succeed by definition, 

Uh?  That’s a peculiar statement.  Which is to say that it’s not true.

> but,
> unfortunately, it would be failed sometimes. It is hard to track down
> the problem, because it is related to page reference manipulation and
> we don't have any facility to analyze it.
>
> This patch adds tracepoints to track down page reference manipulation.
> With it, we can find exact reason of failure and can fix the problem.
> Following is an example of tracepoint output.
>
> <...>-9018  [004]    92.678375: page_ref_set:         pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x0 count=1 mapcount=0 mapping=(nil) mt=4 val=1
> <...>-9018  [004]    92.678378: kernel_stack:
>  => get_page_from_freelist (ffffffff81176659)
>  => __alloc_pages_nodemask (ffffffff81176d22)
>  => alloc_pages_vma (ffffffff811bf675)
>  => handle_mm_fault (ffffffff8119e693)
>  => __do_page_fault (ffffffff810631ea)
>  => trace_do_page_fault (ffffffff81063543)
>  => do_async_page_fault (ffffffff8105c40a)
>  => async_page_fault (ffffffff817581d8)
> [snip]
> <...>-9018  [004]    92.678379: page_ref_mod:         pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x40048 count=2 mapcount=1 mapping=0xffff880015a78dc1 mt=4 val=1
> [snip]
> ...
> ...
> <...>-9131  [001]    93.174468: test_pages_isolated:  start_pfn=0x17800 end_pfn=0x17c00 fin_pfn=0x17ac9 ret=fail
> [snip]
> <...>-9018  [004]    93.174843: page_ref_mod_and_test: pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x40068 count=0 mapcount=0 mapping=0xffff880015a78dc1 mt=4 val=-1 ret=1
>  => release_pages (ffffffff8117c9e4)
>  => free_pages_and_swap_cache (ffffffff811b0697)
>  => tlb_flush_mmu_free (ffffffff81199616)
>  => tlb_finish_mmu (ffffffff8119a62c)
>  => exit_mmap (ffffffff811a53f7)
>  => mmput (ffffffff81073f47)
>  => do_exit (ffffffff810794e9)
>  => do_group_exit (ffffffff81079def)
>  => SyS_exit_group (ffffffff81079e74)
>  => entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff817560b6)
>
> This output shows that problem comes from exit path. In exit path,
> to improve performance, pages are not freed immediately. They are gathered
> and processed by batch. During this process, migration cannot be possible
> and CMA allocation is failed. This problem is hard to find without this
> page reference tracepoint facility.
>
> Enabling this feature bloat kernel text 20 KB in my configuration.
>
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 12041272        2223424 1507328 15772024         f0a978 vmlinux_disabled
> 12064844        2225920 1507328 15798092         f10f4c vmlinux_enabled
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>

> ---
>  include/trace/events/page_ref.h | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I haven’t really looked at the above file though.

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