On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:43:32PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>
> On 1/31/22 15:51, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 02:23:07PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> > > It was found that a number of offlined memcgs were not freed because
> > > they were pinned by some charged pages that were present. Even "echo
> > > 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" wasn't able to free those pages. These
> > > offlined but not freed memcgs tend to increase in number over time with
> > > the side effect that percpu memory consumption as shown in /proc/meminfo
> > > also increases over time.
> > >
> > > In order to find out more information about those pages that pin
> > > offlined memcgs, the page_owner feature is extended to print memory
> > > cgroup information especially whether the cgroup is offlined or not.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > mm/page_owner.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
> > > index 28dac73e0542..a471c74c7fe0 100644
> > > --- a/mm/page_owner.c
> > > +++ b/mm/page_owner.c
> > > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> > > #include <linux/migrate.h>
> > > #include <linux/stackdepot.h>
> > > #include <linux/seq_file.h>
> > > +#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
> > > #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
> > > #include "internal.h"
> > > @@ -325,6 +326,42 @@ void pagetypeinfo_showmixedcount_print(struct seq_file *m,
> > > seq_putc(m, '\n');
> > > }
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> > > +/*
> > > + * Looking for memcg information and print it out
> > > + */
> > > +static inline void print_page_owner_memcg(char *kbuf, size_t count, int *pret,
> > > + struct page *page)
> > > +{
> > > + unsigned long memcg_data = READ_ONCE(page->memcg_data);
> > > + struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> > > + bool onlined;
> > > + char name[80];
> > > +
> > > + if (!memcg_data)
> > > + return;
> > > +
> > > + if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS)
> > > + *pret += scnprintf(kbuf + *pret, count - *pret,
> > > + "Slab cache page\n");
> > Don't we need to check for overflow here?
>
> See my previous patch 2 and the reason I used scnprintf() is that it never
> return a length that is >= the given size. So overflow won't happen. The
> final snprintf() in print_page_owner() will detect buffer overflow.
Right, I've missed that
> > > +
> > > + memcg = page_memcg_check(page);
> > > + if (!memcg)
> > > + return;
> > > +
> > > + onlined = (memcg->css.flags & CSS_ONLINE);
> > > + cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup, name, sizeof(name));
> > > + *pret += scnprintf(kbuf + *pret, count - *pret,
> > > + "Charged %sto %smemcg %s\n",
> > > + PageMemcgKmem(page) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
> > > + onlined ? "" : "offlined ",
> > > + name);
> > Ditto
> >
> > > +}
> > > +#else /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
> > > +static inline void print_page_owner_memcg(char *kbuf, size_t count, int *pret,
> > > + struct page *page) { }
> > I think #ifdef inside the print_page_owner_memcg() functions will be
> > simpler and clearer.
>
> Yes, I see both styles used in kernel code though this style is probably
> more common. I will keep this unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.
Having #ifdef inside the function is safer wrt future updates. It's often
happens that non-default arm of #ifdef is forgotten. Besides, it's several
lines less.
> > > +#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
> > > +
> > > static ssize_t
> > > print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
> > > struct page *page, struct page_owner *page_owner,
> > > @@ -365,6 +402,8 @@ print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
> > > migrate_reason_names[page_owner->last_migrate_reason]);
> > > }
> > > + print_page_owner_memcg(kbuf, count, &ret, page);
> > > +
> > ret can go over count here.
> > Why not make print_page_owner_memcg() an int so that the call will be
> > consistent with other calls in print_page_owner():
> >
> > ret += print_page_owner_memcg(kbuf, count, page);
> > if (ret >= count)
> > goto err;
I still think that 'int print_page_owner_memcg()' is clearer and more
readable.
> See my comments above.
>
> Cheers,
> Longman
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
