linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmstat: Keep count of the maximum page reached by the kernel stack

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Message-ID: <7af73776-06f9-42e6-9bfc-fabe8f8b002e@csgroup.eu>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 08:19:20 +0000
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>, "akpm@...ux-foundation.org"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmstat: Keep count of the maximum page reached by the
 kernel stack



Le 13/03/2024 à 04:34, Pasha Tatashin a écrit :
> CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE provides a mechanism to know the minimum amount
> of memory that was left in stack. Every time the new anti-record is
> reached a message is printed to the console.
> 
> However, this is not useful to know how much each page within stack was
> actually used. Provide a mechanism to count the number of time each
> stack page was reached throughout the live of the stack:

by "this is not useful to know ", you mean "this does not allow us to 
know" ?

> 
> 	$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
> 	kstack_page_1 19974
> 	kstack_page_2 94
> 	kstack_page_3 0
> 	kstack_page_4 0

That's probably only usefull when THREAD_SIZE is larger than PAGE_SIZE.

On powerpc 8xx, THREAD_SIZE is 8k by default and PAGE_SIZE can be either 
4k or 16k.

Christophe