linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: debug: print correct information for slab folios

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Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 13:32:14 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Sukrit Bhatnagar <Sukrit.Bhatnagar@...y.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: debug: print correct information for slab folios

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 04:46:29PM +0900, Sukrit Bhatnagar wrote:
> The function dump_page() prints "anon" even for slab pages.
> This is not correct, especially now that struct slab is separated from
> struct page, and that the slab pages cannot be mapped to userspace.
> 
> [    7.071985] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x102768
> [    7.072602] head: order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
> [    7.073085] anon flags: 0x8000000000000840(slab|head|zone=2)
> [    7.073777] raw: 8000000000000840 ffff8881000419c0 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
> 
> This debugging output may be misleading, and it is not easy to understand
> unless we read the source code.
> 
> If the folio tests true for slab, do not print information that does not
> apply to it. Instead, print the slab flags stored in the kmem_cache field.
> 
> [    7.248722] page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888103e6aa87>
> [    7.249135] head: order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
> [    7.249429] slab flags: 0x8000000000000840(slab|head|zone=2)
> [    7.249664] cache flags: 0x10310(HWCACHE_ALIGN|PANIC|TYPESAFE_BY_RCU|CMPXCHG_DOUBLE)
> [    7.249999] raw: 8000000000000000 ffffea00040f9a01 ffffea00040f9bc8 dead000000000400

You haven't tested this against the current codebase ...

> @@ -98,6 +101,8 @@ static void __dump_folio(struct folio *folio, struct page *page,
>  		is_migrate_cma_folio(folio, pfn) ? " CMA" : "");
>  	if (page_has_type(&folio->page))
>  		pr_warn("page_type: %pGt\n", &folio->page.page_type);
> +	else if (folio_test_slab(folio))
> +		pr_warn("cache flags: %pGs\n", &((struct slab *)&folio->page)->slab_cache->flags);
>  

.. because page_has_type() is now true for slab; there is no more
PG_slab.  I think you also want:

	folio_slab(folio)->slab_cache->flags

Anyway, we have print_slab_info() which is currently static in slub.c.
Maybe that needs to become non-static and dump_page() should call that
for slabs?