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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] mm, page_owner: Skip unnecessary stack_trace entries
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On 8/31/2017 1:04 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 08/30/2017 09:32 AM, Prakash Gupta wrote:
>> The page_owner stacktrace always begin as follows:
>>
>> [<ffffff987bfd48f4>] save_stack+0x40/0xc8
>> [<ffffff987bfd4da8>] __set_page_owner+0x3c/0x6c
>
> Hmm, on x86_64 it looks like this:
>
> save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20
> save_stack+0x43/0xe0
> __set_page_owner+0x24/0x50
>
> So after your patch there's still __set_page_owner. Seems x86 needs
> something similar to your arm64 patch 1/2?

Yes, that's correct.

>
>> These two entries do not provide any useful information and limits the
>> available stacktrace depth. The page_owner stacktrace was skipping caller
>> function from stack entries but this was missed with commit f2ca0b557107
>> ("mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace")
>>
>> Example page_owner entry after the patch:
>>
>> Page allocated via order 0, mask 0x8(ffffff80085fb714)
>> PFN 654411 type Movable Block 639 type CMA Flags 0x0(ffffffbe5c7f12c0)
>> [<ffffff9b64989c14>] post_alloc_hook+0x70/0x80
>> ...
>> [<ffffff9b651216e8>] msm_comm_try_state+0x5f8/0x14f4
>> [<ffffff9b6512486c>] msm_vidc_open+0x5e4/0x7d0
>> [<ffffff9b65113674>] msm_v4l2_open+0xa8/0x224
>>
>> Fixes: f2ca0b557107 ("mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace")
>> Signed-off-by: Prakash Gupta <guptap@codeaurora.org>
>
> The patch itself improves the output regardless of whether we fix the
> x86 internals, so:
>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Thanks.

>
>> ---
>> mm/page_owner.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
>> index 10d16fc45bd9..75b7c39bf1df 100644
>> --- a/mm/page_owner.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_owner.c
>> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ static noinline depot_stack_handle_t save_stack(gfp_t flags)
>> .nr_entries = 0,
>> .entries = entries,
>> .max_entries = PAGE_OWNER_STACK_DEPTH,
>> - .skip = 0
>> + .skip = 2
>> };
>> depot_stack_handle_t handle;
>>
>>
>

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