linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memory_hotplug: put migration failure information under DEBUG

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Message-ID: <bfa430f6-a6a6-8b08-2776-cb62197619c0@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:40:40 +0530
From:   Charan Teja Kalla <charante@...eaurora.org>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, david@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "vinmenon@...eaurora.org" <vinmenon@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memory_hotplug: put migration failure information
 under DEBUG_VM


Thanks Michal!
On 11/23/2020 7:43 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 23-11-20 19:33:16, Charan Teja Reddy wrote:
>> When the pages are failed to get isolate or migrate, the page owner
>> information along with page info is dumped. If there are continuous
>> failures in migration(say page is pinned) or isolation, the log buffer
>> is simply getting flooded with the page owner information. As most of
>> the times page info is sufficient to know the causes for failures of
>> migration or isolation, place the page owner information under DEBUG_VM.
> 
> I do not see why this path is any different from others that call
> dump_page. Page owner can add a very valuable information to debug
> the underlying reasons for failures here. It is an opt-in debugging
> feature which needs to be enabled explicitly. So I would argue users
> are ready to accept a lot of data in the kernel log.

Just thinking how frequently failures can happen in those paths. In the
memory hotplug path, we can flood the page owner logs just by making one
page pinned. Say If it is anonymous page, the page owner information
shows is something like below, which is not really telling anything
other than how the pinned page is allocated.

page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask
0x100dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO)
  prep_new_page+0x7c/0x1a4
  get_page_from_freelist+0x1ac/0x1c4
  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x12c/0x378
  do_anonymous_page+0xac/0x3b4
  handle_pte_fault+0x2a4/0x3bc
  __handle_speculative_fault+0x208/0x3c0
  do_page_fault+0x280/0x508
  do_translation_fault+0x3c/0x54
  do_mem_abort+0x64/0xf4
  el0_da+0x1c/0x20
 page last free stack trace:
  free_pcp_prepare+0x320/0x454
  free_unref_page_list+0x9c/0x2a4
  release_pages+0x370/0x3c8
  free_pages_and_swap_cache+0xdc/0x10c
  tlb_flush_mmu+0x110/0x134
  tlb_finish_mmu+0x48/0xc0
  unmap_region+0x104/0x138
  __do_munmap+0x2ec/0x3b4
  __arm64_sys_munmap+0x80/0xd8

I see at some places in the kernel where they put the dump_page under
DEBUG_VM, but in the end I agree that it is up to the users need. Then
there are some users who don't care for these page owner logs.

And an issue on Embedded systems with these continuous logs being
printed to the console is the watchdog timeouts, because console logging
happens by disabling the interrupts.

>  
>> Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@...eaurora.org>
>> ---
>>  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 10 ++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> index 63b2e46..f48f30d 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> @@ -1326,7 +1326,10 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
>>  
>>  		} else {
>>  			pr_warn("failed to isolate pfn %lx\n", pfn);
>> -			dump_page(page, "isolation failed");
>> +			__dump_page(page, "isolation failed");
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)
>> +			dump_page_owner(page);
>> +#endif
>>  		}
>>  		put_page(page);
>>  	}
>> @@ -1357,7 +1360,10 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
>>  			list_for_each_entry(page, &source, lru) {
>>  				pr_warn("migrating pfn %lx failed ret:%d ",
>>  				       page_to_pfn(page), ret);
>> -				dump_page(page, "migration failure");
>> +				__dump_page(page, "migration failure");
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)
>> +				dump_page_owner(page);
>> +#endif
>>  			}
>>  			putback_movable_pages(&source);
>>  		}
>> -- 
>> QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a
>> member of the Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation
> 

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