[PATCH mmotm] mm, sl[au]b: print gfp_flags as strings in slab_out_of_memory()

[PATCH mmotm] mm, sl[au]b: print gfp_flags as strings in slab_out_of_memory()

[Vlastimil Babka]

We can now print gfp_flags more human-readable. Make use of this in
slab_out_of_memory() for SLUB and SLAB. Also convert the SLAB variant it to
pr_warn() along the way.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
---
This could go after e.g. mm-oom-print-symbolic-gfp_flags-in-oom-warning.patch
Quick grep suggests there are no other places to convert.

 mm/slab.c | 10 ++++------
 mm/slub.c |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index b9ee77554008..c87088ae2351 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1347,10 +1347,9 @@ slab_out_of_memory(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t gfpflags, int nodeid)
 	if ((gfpflags & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&slab_oom_rs))
 		return;
 
-	printk(KERN_WARNING
-		"SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node %d (gfp=0x%x)\n",
-		nodeid, gfpflags);
-	printk(KERN_WARNING "  cache: %s, object size: %d, order: %d\n",
+	pr_warn("SLAB: Unable to allocate memory on node %d, gfp=%#x(%pGg)\n",
+		nodeid, gfpflags, &gfpflags);
+	pr_warn("  cache: %s, object size: %d, order: %d\n",
 		cachep->name, cachep->size, cachep->gfporder);
 
 	for_each_kmem_cache_node(cachep, node, n) {
@@ -1374,8 +1373,7 @@ slab_out_of_memory(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t gfpflags, int nodeid)
 
 		num_slabs += active_slabs;
 		num_objs = num_slabs * cachep->num;
-		printk(KERN_WARNING
-			"  node %d: slabs: %ld/%ld, objs: %ld/%ld, free: %ld\n",
+		pr_warn("  node %d: slabs: %ld/%ld, objs: %ld/%ld, free: %ld\n",
 			node, active_slabs, num_slabs, active_objs, num_objs,
 			free_objects);
 	}
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index d86720d93cda..8caaf2903241 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2248,8 +2248,8 @@ slab_out_of_memory(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int nid)
 	if ((gfpflags & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&slub_oom_rs))
 		return;
 
-	pr_warn("SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node %d (gfp=0x%x)\n",
-		nid, gfpflags);
+	pr_warn("SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node %d, gfp=%#x(%pGg)\n",
+		nid, gfpflags, &gfpflags);
 	pr_warn("  cache: %s, object size: %d, buffer size: %d, default order: %d, min order: %d\n",
 		s->name, s->object_size, s->size, oo_order(s->oo),
 		oo_order(s->min));
-- 
2.7.2

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Re: [PATCH mmotm] mm, sl[au]b: print gfp_flags as strings in slab_out_of_memory()

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> We can now print gfp_flags more human-readable. Make use of this in
> slab_out_of_memory() for SLUB and SLAB. Also convert the SLAB variant it to
> pr_warn() along the way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Although I've always been curious about the usefulness of these out of 
memory calls in the first place.  They are obviously for debugging, but 
have they actually helped to diagnose anything?

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Re: [PATCH mmotm] mm, sl[au]b: print gfp_flags as strings in slab_out_of_memory()

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 03/01/2016 11:41 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>
>> We can now print gfp_flags more human-readable. Make use of this in
>> slab_out_of_memory() for SLUB and SLAB. Also convert the SLAB variant it to
>> pr_warn() along the way.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
>> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
>> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
>> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
>> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Thanks.

> Although I've always been curious about the usefulness of these out of
> memory calls in the first place.  They are obviously for debugging, but
> have they actually helped to diagnose anything?

Uh no idea, maybe other SL*B maintainers have more experience. But what 
did prompt me to write this patch is that I've recently have actually 
seen the output of those in some (presumably linux-mm) thread.

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