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Georgi Djakov
866b485262 mm/page_owner: record the timestamp of all pages during free
Collect the time when each allocation is freed, to help with memory
analysis with kdump/ramdump.  Add the timestamp also in the page_owner
debugfs file and print it in dump_page().

Having another timestamp when we free the page helps for debugging page
migration issues.  For example both alloc and free timestamps being the
same can gave hints that there is an issue with migrating memory, as
opposed to a page just being dropped during migration.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210203175905.12267-1-georgi.djakov@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-30 11:20:36 -07:00
Liam Mark
9cc7e96aa8 mm/page_owner: record timestamp and pid
Collect the time for each allocation recorded in page owner so that
allocation "surges" can be measured.

Record the pid for each allocation recorded in page owner so that the
source of allocation "surges" can be better identified.

The above is very useful when doing memory analysis.  On a crash for
example, we can get this information from kdump (or ramdump) and parse it
to figure out memory allocation problems.

Please note that on x86_64 this increases the size of struct page_owner
from 16 bytes to 32.

Vlastimil: it's not a functionality intended for production, so unless
somebody says they need to enable page_owner for debugging and this
increase prevents them from fitting into available memory, let's not
complicate things with making this optional.

[lmark@codeaurora.org: v3]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201210160357.27779-1-georgi.djakov@linaro.org

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201209125153.10533-1-georgi.djakov@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Liam Mark <lmark@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
Colin Ian King
94ebdd28fc docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes
Fix several spelling mistakes in vm documentation.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201022142653.254429-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-10-22 16:11:04 -06:00
Changhee Han
5b94ce2fca tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line
To see a sorted result from page_owner, there must be a tiresome
preprocessing step before running page_owner_sort.  This patch simply
filters out lines which start with "PFN" while reading the page owner
report.

Signed-off-by: Changhee Han <ch0.han@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200429052940.16968-1-ch0.han@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-03 20:09:49 -07:00
Mike Rapoport
ad56b738c5 docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16 14:18:15 -06:00
Renamed from Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt (Browse further)