Re: [PATCH v3] mm: page_alloc: dump migrate-failed pages

[Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 05:40:35PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 10.03.21 19:01, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Currently, debugging CMA allocation failures is quite limited.
> > The most commong source of these failures seems to be page
> > migration which doesn't provide any useful information on the
> > reason of the failure by itself. alloc_contig_range can report
> > those failures as it holds a list of migrate-failed pages.
> > 
> > page refcount, mapcount with page flags on dump_page are
> > helpful information to deduce the culprit. Furthermore,
> > dump_page_owner was super helpful to find long term pinner
> > who initiated the page allocation.
> > 
> > The reason it approach with dynamic debug is the debug message
> > could emit lots of noises as alloc_contig_range calls more
> > frequently since it's a best effort allocator.
> > 
> > There are two ifdefery conditions to support common dyndbg options:
> > 
> > - CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE && DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE
> > It aims for supporting the feature with only specific file
> > with adding ccflags.
> > 
> > - CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG
> > It aims for supporting the feature with system wide globally.
> > 
> > A simple example to enable the feature:
> > 
> > Admin could enable the dump like this(by default, disabled)
> > 
> > 	echo "func dump_migrate_failure_pages +p" > control
> > 
> > Admin could disable it.
> > 
> > 	echo "func dump_migrate_failure_pages =_" > control
> > 
> > Detail goes Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst
> > 
> > A concern is utility functions in dump_page uses inconsistent
> > loglevels.
> > 
> > __dump_page: KERN_WARNING
> > __dump_page_owner: KERN_ALERT
> >          stack_trace_print: KERN_DEFAULT
> > 
> > There are bunch of places to use the inconsistent loglevel
> > utility functions(e.g., just grep dump_page/strace_trace_print).
> > It's unfortunate but here we are. It could be addressed
> > different patchset.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > * from v2 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210308202047.1903802-1-minchan@kernel.org/
> >    * remove ratelimit - mhocko
> > 
> > * from v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210217163603.429062-1-minchan@kernel.org/
> >    * use dynamic debugging with system wide instead of per-call site - mhocko
> > 
> >   mm/page_alloc.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index 3e4b29ee2b1e..f42f3e208794 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -8453,6 +8453,27 @@ static unsigned long pfn_max_align_up(unsigned long pfn)
> >   				pageblock_nr_pages));
> >   }
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG) || \
> > +	(defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE) && defined(DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE))
> > +static void alloc_contig_dump_pages(struct list_head *page_list)
> > +{
> > +	DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA(descriptor,
> > +			"migrate failure");
> > +
> > +	if (DYNAMIC_DEBUG_BRANCH(descriptor)) {
> > +		struct page *page;
> > +
> > +		WARN(1, "failed callstack");
> 
> Not sure if we want that here. You can deterministically crash a kernel with
> panic_on_warn set - which is what some distros already do.

Good point.

> 
> Some other way to dump the current call stack would be handy ...

Yub, let's go with dump_stack.

> 
> > +		list_for_each_entry(page, page_list, lru)
> > +			dump_page(page, "migration failure");
> > +	}
> > +}
> > +#else
> > +static inline void alloc_contig_dump_pages(struct list_head *page_list)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +#endif
> > +
> >   /* [start, end) must belong to a single zone. */
> >   static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc,
> >   					unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> > @@ -8496,6 +8517,7 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc,
> >   				NULL, (unsigned long)&mtc, cc->mode, MR_CONTIG_RANGE);
> >   	}
> >   	if (ret < 0) {
> > +		alloc_contig_dump_pages(&cc->migratepages);
> >   		putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
> >   		return ret;
> >   	}
> > 
> 
> For me, this is good enough for now.

Thanks.
Let me send next revision with addressing your point and Andrew's one.