linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_owner: Dump memcg information

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Message-Id: <20220128195642.416743-3-longman@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:56:42 -0500
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_owner: Dump memcg information

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@...hat.com>
---
 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",
+			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