linux-kernel - Re: [Patch v2 1/4] mm: enable dump several reasons for __dump

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Message-ID: <8426f31b-606e-deca-acbe-dd59b193e113@arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:42:30 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        rientjes@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [Patch v2 1/4] mm: enable dump several reasons for __dump_page()



On 01/20/2020 08:34 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
> This is a preparation to dump all reasons during check page.

This really makes sense rather then just picking the reason from
the last "if" statement.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mmdebug.h |  2 +-
>  mm/debug.c              | 11 ++++++-----
>  mm/page_alloc.c         |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmdebug.h b/include/linux/mmdebug.h
> index 2ad72d2c8cc5..f0a612db8bae 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmdebug.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmdebug.h
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
>  struct mm_struct;
>  
>  extern void dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason);
> -extern void __dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason);
> +extern void __dump_page(struct page *page, int num, const char **reason);
>  void dump_vma(const struct vm_area_struct *vma);
>  void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm);
>  
> diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
> index 0461df1207cb..a8ac6f951f9f 100644
> --- a/mm/debug.c
> +++ b/mm/debug.c
> @@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ const struct trace_print_flags vmaflag_names[] = {
>  	{0, NULL}
>  };
>  
> -void __dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason)
> +void __dump_page(struct page *page, int num, const char **reason)
>  {
>  	struct address_space *mapping;
>  	bool page_poisoned = PagePoisoned(page);
> -	int mapcount;
> +	int mapcount, i;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If struct page is poisoned don't access Page*() functions as that
> @@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ void __dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason)
>  			sizeof(unsigned long), page,
>  			sizeof(struct page), false);
>  
> -	if (reason)
> -		pr_warn("page dumped because: %s\n", reason);
> +	pr_warn("page dumped because:\n");
> +	for (i = 0; i < num; i++)
> +		pr_warn("\t%s\n", reason[i]);

We should have a NR_BAD_PAGE_REASONS or something to cap this iteration
and also check reason[i] for non-NULL before trying to print the array.
There might be call sites like the following which will be problematic
otherwise.

split_huge_page_to_list() -> dump_page(head, NULL)

>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
>  	if (!page_poisoned && page->mem_cgroup)

While here, will it be better to move the above debug print block after
mem_cgroup block instead ?

> @@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ void __dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason)
>  
>  void dump_page(struct page *page, const char *reason)
>  {
> -	__dump_page(page, reason);
> +	__dump_page(page, 1, &reason);
>  	dump_page_owner(page);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_page);
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index d047bf7d8fd4..0cf6218aaba7 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page, const char *reason,
>  
>  	pr_alert("BUG: Bad page state in process %s  pfn:%05lx\n",
>  		current->comm, page_to_pfn(page));
> -	__dump_page(page, reason);
> +	__dump_page(page, 1, &reason);
>  	bad_flags &= page->flags;
>  	if (bad_flags)
>  		pr_alert("bad because of flags: %#lx(%pGp)\n",
> 

Do we still need to have bad_flags ? After consolidating all reasons making
a page bad should not we just print page->flags unconditionally each time and
let the user decipher it instead. __dump_page() will print page->flags for
each case (atleast after the new patch from Vlastimil). AFAICS, the only
place currently consuming bad_flags is bad_page() which seems redundant after
first calling __dump_page().