linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] mm/page_owner.c: add llseek for page

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Message-ID: <ab4f79ea-0a02-9556-645f-cca32dea3cad@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 9 Aug 2022 11:30:45 +0200
From:   "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@...nel.org>
To:     Kassey Li <quic_yingangl@...cinc.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     minchan@...nel.org, vbabka@...e.cz, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] mm/page_owner.c: add llseek for page_owner

On 8/9/22 04:47, Kassey Li wrote:
> There is usage to dump a given cma region page_owner
> instead of all page's.
> 
> This change allows to specify a ppos as start_pfn
> by fseek.
> 
> Any invalid ppos will be skipped, so it did not
> broken the origin dump feature.
> 
> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Kassey Li <quic_yingangl@...cinc.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst | 6 ++++++
>  mm/internal.h                   | 5 +++++
>  mm/page_owner.c                 | 9 ++++++---
>  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
> index f5c954afe97c..8d33d976da8a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
> @@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ Usage
>  	PFN XXX ...
>  	// Detailed stack
>  
> +   By default, it will do full pfn dump, to start with a given pfn,
> +   page_owner supports fseek.
> +
> +   FILE *fp = fopen("/sys/kernel/debug/page_owner", "r");
> +   fseek(fp, pfn_start, SEEK_SET);
> +
>     The ``page_owner_sort`` tool ignores ``PFN`` rows, puts the remaining rows
>     in buf, uses regexp to extract the page order value, counts the times
>     and pages of buf, and finally sorts them according to the parameter(s).
> diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> index c0f8fbe0445b..1ad8f86e6e33 100644
> --- a/mm/internal.h
> +++ b/mm/internal.h
> @@ -189,6 +189,11 @@ extern void reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason
>   */
>  extern pmd_t *mm_find_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address);
>  
> +/*
> + * in mm/page_owner.c:

This should say where it's defined, not used from, and that's
fs/proc/base.c. But it's already declared in fs/proc/internal.h so maybe
page_owner.c could just include that header (although it's a bit meh).

> + */
> +extern loff_t mem_lseek(struct file *, loff_t, int);
> +
>  /*
>   * in mm/page_alloc.c
>   */
> diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
> index e4c6f3f1695b..dcbe05e206e1 100644
> --- a/mm/page_owner.c
> +++ b/mm/page_owner.c
> @@ -497,8 +497,10 @@ read_page_owner(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	page = NULL;
> -	pfn = min_low_pfn + *ppos;
> -
> +	if (*ppos == 0)
> +		pfn= min_low_pfn;

missing space before '='

> +	else
> +		pfn = *ppos;
>  	/* Find a valid PFN or the start of a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES area */
>  	while (!pfn_valid(pfn) && (pfn & (MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES - 1)) != 0)
>  		pfn++;
> @@ -561,7 +563,7 @@ read_page_owner(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>  			continue;
>  
>  		/* Record the next PFN to read in the file offset */
> -		*ppos = (pfn - min_low_pfn) + 1;
> +		*ppos = pfn + 1;
>  
>  		return print_page_owner(buf, count, pfn, page,
>  				page_owner, handle);
> @@ -660,6 +662,7 @@ static void init_early_allocated_pages(void)
>  
>  static const struct file_operations proc_page_owner_operations = {
>  	.read		= read_page_owner,
> +	.llseek 	= mem_lseek,
>  };
>  
>  static int __init pageowner_init(void)