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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: memory_hotplug: put migration failure information under DEBUG_VM
On Mon 23-11-20 20:40:40, Charan Teja Kalla wrote:
>
> Thanks Michal!
> On 11/23/2020 7:43 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 23-11-20 19:33:16, Charan Teja Reddy wrote:
> >> When the pages are failed to get isolate or migrate, the page owner
> >> information along with page info is dumped. If there are continuous
> >> failures in migration(say page is pinned) or isolation, the log buffer
> >> is simply getting flooded with the page owner information. As most of
> >> the times page info is sufficient to know the causes for failures of
> >> migration or isolation, place the page owner information under DEBUG_VM.
> >
> > I do not see why this path is any different from others that call
> > dump_page. Page owner can add a very valuable information to debug
> > the underlying reasons for failures here. It is an opt-in debugging
> > feature which needs to be enabled explicitly. So I would argue users
> > are ready to accept a lot of data in the kernel log.
>
> Just thinking how frequently failures can happen in those paths. In the
> memory hotplug path, we can flood the page owner logs just by making one
> page pinned.

If you are operating on a movable zone then pages shouldn't be pinned
for unbound amount of time. Yeah there are some ways to break this
fundamental assumption but this is a bigger problem that needs a
solution.

> Say If it is anonymous page, the page owner information
> shows is something like below, which is not really telling anything
> other than how the pinned page is allocated.

Well you can tell an anonymous page from __dump_page, all right, but
this is not true universally.

> page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask
> 0x100dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO)
> prep_new_page+0x7c/0x1a4
> get_page_from_freelist+0x1ac/0x1c4
> __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x12c/0x378
> do_anonymous_page+0xac/0x3b4
> handle_pte_fault+0x2a4/0x3bc
> __handle_speculative_fault+0x208/0x3c0
> do_page_fault+0x280/0x508
> do_translation_fault+0x3c/0x54
> do_mem_abort+0x64/0xf4
> el0_da+0x1c/0x20
> page last free stack trace:
> free_pcp_prepare+0x320/0x454
> free_unref_page_list+0x9c/0x2a4
> release_pages+0x370/0x3c8
> free_pages_and_swap_cache+0xdc/0x10c
> tlb_flush_mmu+0x110/0x134
> tlb_finish_mmu+0x48/0xc0
> unmap_region+0x104/0x138
> __do_munmap+0x2ec/0x3b4
> __arm64_sys_munmap+0x80/0xd8
>
> I see at some places in the kernel where they put the dump_page under
> DEBUG_VM, but in the end I agree that it is up to the users need. Then
> there are some users who don't care for these page owner logs.

Well, as I've said page_owner requires an explicit enabling and I would
expect that if somebody enables this tracking then it is expected to see
the information when we dump a page state.

> And an issue on Embedded systems with these continuous logs being
> printed to the console is the watchdog timeouts, because console logging
> happens by disabling the interrupts.

Are you enabling page_owner on those systems unconditionally?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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