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author | Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> | 2024-04-04 09:07:00 +0200 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-04-16 15:39:49 -0700 |
commit | f5c12105c15f0ddf0ff37646290568dd986fa2f3 (patch) | |
tree | d4e8271721c9067c1d152fe24be97fa2b8761355 /Documentation | |
parent | ea4b5b33bf8a4936cfb07759d926db697c43fb1e (diff) |
mm,page_owner: fix refcount imbalance
Current code does not contemplate scenarios were an allocation and free
operation on the same pages do not handle it in the same amount at once.
To give an example, page_alloc_exact(), where we will allocate a page of
enough order to stafisfy the size request, but we will free the remainings
right away.
In the above example, we will increment the stack_record refcount only
once, but we will decrease it the same number of times as number of unused
pages we have to free. This will lead to a warning because of refcount
imbalance.
Fix this by recording the number of base pages in the refcount field.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240404070702.2744-3-osalvador@suse.de
Reported-by: syzbot+41bbfdb8d41003d12c0f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/00000000000090e8ff0613eda0e5@google.com
Fixes: 217b2119b9e2 ("mm,page_owner: implement the tracking of the stacks count")
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 73 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst index 0d0334cd5179..3a45a20fc05a 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst @@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ fragmentation statistics can be obtained through gfp flag information of each page. It is already implemented and activated if page owner is enabled. Other usages are more than welcome. -It can also be used to show all the stacks and their outstanding -allocations, which gives us a quick overview of where the memory is going -without the need to screen through all the pages and match the allocation -and free operation. +It can also be used to show all the stacks and their current number of +allocated base pages, which gives us a quick overview of where the memory +is going without the need to screen through all the pages and match the +allocation and free operation. page owner is disabled by default. So, if you'd like to use it, you need to add "page_owner=on" to your boot cmdline. If the kernel is built @@ -75,42 +75,45 @@ Usage cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks > stacks.txt cat stacks.txt - prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120 - get_page_from_freelist+0x7e6/0x2140 - __alloc_pages+0x18a/0x370 - new_slab+0xc8/0x580 - ___slab_alloc+0x1f2/0xaf0 - __slab_alloc.isra.86+0x22/0x40 - kmem_cache_alloc+0x31b/0x350 - __khugepaged_enter+0x39/0x100 - dup_mmap+0x1c7/0x5ce - copy_process+0x1afe/0x1c90 - kernel_clone+0x9a/0x3c0 - __do_sys_clone+0x66/0x90 - do_syscall_64+0x7f/0x160 - entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74 - stack_count: 234 + post_alloc_hook+0x177/0x1a0 + get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80 + __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0 + allocate_slab+0xbc/0x3f0 + ___slab_alloc+0x528/0x8a0 + kmem_cache_alloc+0x224/0x3b0 + sk_prot_alloc+0x58/0x1a0 + sk_alloc+0x32/0x4f0 + inet_create+0x427/0xb50 + __sock_create+0x2e4/0x650 + inet_ctl_sock_create+0x30/0x180 + igmp_net_init+0xc1/0x130 + ops_init+0x167/0x410 + setup_net+0x304/0xa60 + copy_net_ns+0x29b/0x4a0 + create_new_namespaces+0x4a1/0x820 + nr_base_pages: 16 ... ... echo 7000 > /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/count_threshold cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks> stacks_7000.txt cat stacks_7000.txt - prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120 - get_page_from_freelist+0x7e6/0x2140 - __alloc_pages+0x18a/0x370 - alloc_pages_mpol+0xdf/0x1e0 - folio_alloc+0x14/0x50 - filemap_alloc_folio+0xb0/0x100 - page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x97/0x180 - filemap_fault+0x4b4/0x1200 - __do_fault+0x2d/0x110 - do_pte_missing+0x4b0/0xa30 - __handle_mm_fault+0x7fa/0xb70 - handle_mm_fault+0x125/0x300 - do_user_addr_fault+0x3c9/0x840 - exc_page_fault+0x68/0x150 - asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 - stack_count: 8248 + post_alloc_hook+0x177/0x1a0 + get_page_from_freelist+0xd01/0xd80 + __alloc_pages+0x39e/0x7e0 + alloc_pages_mpol+0x22e/0x490 + folio_alloc+0xd5/0x110 + filemap_alloc_folio+0x78/0x230 + page_cache_ra_order+0x287/0x6f0 + filemap_get_pages+0x517/0x1160 + filemap_read+0x304/0x9f0 + xfs_file_buffered_read+0xe6/0x1d0 [xfs] + xfs_file_read_iter+0x1f0/0x380 [xfs] + __kernel_read+0x3b9/0x730 + kernel_read_file+0x309/0x4d0 + __do_sys_finit_module+0x381/0x730 + do_syscall_64+0x8d/0x150 + entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x62/0x6a + nr_base_pages: 20824 ... cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt |