linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 3/4] mm/page_owner: Print memcg information

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Date:   Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:23:07 -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>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/4] mm/page_owner: Print 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 print memory
cgroup information especially whether the cgroup is offlined or not.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 mm/page_owner.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
index 28dac73e0542..a471c74c7fe0 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"
@@ -325,6 +326,42 @@ void pagetypeinfo_showmixedcount_print(struct seq_file *m,
 	seq_putc(m, '\n');
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
+/*
+ * Looking for memcg information and print it out
+ */
+static inline void print_page_owner_memcg(char *kbuf, size_t count, int *pret,
+					  struct page *page)
+{
+	unsigned long memcg_data = READ_ONCE(page->memcg_data);
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+	bool onlined;
+	char name[80];
+
+	if (!memcg_data)
+		return;
+
+	if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS)
+		*pret += scnprintf(kbuf + *pret, count - *pret,
+				"Slab cache page\n");
+
+	memcg = page_memcg_check(page);
+	if (!memcg)
+		return;
+
+	onlined = (memcg->css.flags & CSS_ONLINE);
+	cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup, name, sizeof(name));
+	*pret += scnprintf(kbuf + *pret, count - *pret,
+			"Charged %sto %smemcg %s\n",
+			PageMemcgKmem(page) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
+			onlined ? "" : "offlined ",
+			name);
+}
+#else /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
+static inline void print_page_owner_memcg(char *kbuf, size_t count, int *pret,
+					  struct page *page) { }
+#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
+
 static ssize_t
 print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
 		struct page *page, struct page_owner *page_owner,
@@ -365,6 +402,8 @@ print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
 			migrate_reason_names[page_owner->last_migrate_reason]);
 	}
 
+	print_page_owner_memcg(kbuf, count, &ret, page);
+
 	ret += snprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret, "\n");
 	if (ret >= count)
 		goto err;
-- 
2.27.0