Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: oom: show unreclaimable slab info when unreclaimable slabs > user memory | From | "Yang Shi" <> | Date | Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:37:55 +0800 |
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On 10/6/17 2:37 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 05-10-17 05:29:10, Yang Shi wrote: >> Kernel may panic when oom happens without killable process sometimes it >> is caused by huge unreclaimable slabs used by kernel. >> >> Although kdump could help debug such problem, however, kdump is not >> available on all architectures and it might be malfunction sometime. >> And, since kernel already panic it is worthy capturing such information >> in dmesg to aid touble shooting. >> >> Print out unreclaimable slab info (used size and total size) which >> actual memory usage is not zero (num_objs * size != 0) when >> unreclaimable slabs amount is greater than total user memory (LRU >> pages). >> >> The output looks like: >> >> Unreclaimable slab info: >> Name Used Total >> rpc_buffers 31KB 31KB >> rpc_tasks 7KB 7KB >> ebitmap_node 1964KB 1964KB >> avtab_node 5024KB 5024KB >> xfs_buf 1402KB 1402KB >> xfs_ili 134KB 134KB >> xfs_efi_item 115KB 115KB >> xfs_efd_item 115KB 115KB >> xfs_buf_item 134KB 134KB >> xfs_log_item_desc 342KB 342KB >> xfs_trans 1412KB 1412KB >> xfs_ifork 212KB 212KB > > OK this looks better. The naming is not the greatest but I will not > nitpick on this. I have one question though > >> >> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> > [...] >> +void dump_unreclaimable_slab(void) >> +{ >> + struct kmem_cache *s, *s2; >> + struct slabinfo sinfo; >> + >> + /* >> + * Here acquiring slab_mutex is risky since we don't prefer to get >> + * sleep in oom path. But, without mutex hold, it may introduce a >> + * risk of crash. >> + * Use mutex_trylock to protect the list traverse, dump nothing >> + * without acquiring the mutex. >> + */ >> + if (!mutex_trylock(&slab_mutex)) { >> + pr_warn("excessive unreclaimable slab but cannot dump stats\n"); >> + return; >> + } >> + >> + pr_info("Unreclaimable slab info:\n"); >> + pr_info("Name Used Total\n"); >> + >> + list_for_each_entry_safe(s, s2, &slab_caches, list) { >> + if (!is_root_cache(s) || (s->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT)) >> + continue; >> + >> + memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo)); > > why do you zero out the structure. All the fields you are printing are > filled out in get_slabinfo.
No special reason, just wipe out the potential stale data on the stack.
Yang
> >> + get_slabinfo(s, &sinfo); >> + >> + if (sinfo.num_objs > 0) >> + pr_info("%-17s %10luKB %10luKB\n", cache_name(s), >> + (sinfo.active_objs * s->size) / 1024, >> + (sinfo.num_objs * s->size) / 1024); >> + } >> + mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex); >> +} >> + >> #if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG) && !defined(CONFIG_SLOB) >> void *memcg_slab_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos) >> { >> -- >> 1.8.3.1 >
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