linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 31/35] lib: add memory allocations report in show

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:07:42 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 31/35] lib: add memory allocations report in
 show_mem()

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:33:30 -0500
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev> wrote:

> > Well, I think without __GFP_NOWARN it will cause a warning and thus
> > recursion into __show_mem(), potentially infinite? Which is of course
> > trivial to fix, but I'd myself rather sacrifice a bit of memory to get
> > this potentially very useful output, if I enabled the profiling. The
> > necessary memory overhead of page_ext and slabobj_ext makes the
> > printing buffer overhead negligible in comparison?  
> 
> __GFP_NOWARN is a good point, we should have that.
> 
> But - and correct me if I'm wrong here - doesn't an OOM kick in well
> before GFP_ATOMIC 4k allocations are failing? I'd expect the system to
> be well and truly hosed at that point.
> 
> If we want this report to be 100% reliable, then yes the preallocated
> buffer makes sense - but I don't think 100% makes sense here; I think we
> can accept ~99% and give back that 4k.

I just compiled v6.8-rc4 vanilla (with a fedora localmodconfig build) and
saved it off (vmlinux.orig), then I compiled with the following:

Applied the patches but did not enable anything:	vmlinux.memtag-off
Enabled MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING:				vmlinux.memtag
Enabled MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT:		vmlinux.memtag-default-on
Enabled MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG:			vmlinux.memtag-debug

And here's what I got:

   text         data            bss     dec             hex filename
29161847        18352730        5619716 53134293        32ac3d5 vmlinux.orig
29162286        18382638        5595140 53140064        32ada60 vmlinux.memtag-off		(+5771)
29230868        18887662        5275652 53394182        32ebb06 vmlinux.memtag			(+259889)
29230746        18887662        5275652 53394060        32eba8c vmlinux.memtag-default-on	(+259767) dropped?
29276214        18946374        5177348 53399936        32ed180 vmlinux.memtag-debug		(+265643)

Just adding the patches increases the size by 5k. But the rest shows an
increase of 259k, and you are worried about 4k (and possibly less?)???

-- Steve