From: Zhen Ni <zhen.ni@easystack.cn>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@kernel.org
Cc: surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com, jackmanb@google.com,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, ziy@nvidia.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zhen Ni <zhen.ni@easystack.cn>
Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] mm/page_owner: document page_owner filter features
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:11:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260428071112.1420380-5-zhen.ni@easystack.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260428071112.1420380-1-zhen.ni@easystack.cn>
Add documentation for the page_owner filter functionality, including:
- Print mode filter (full stack vs stack handle)
- NUMA node filter (single node, multiple nodes, ranges)
- Usage examples for both filters
Signed-off-by: Zhen Ni <zhen.ni@easystack.cn>
---
Changes in v3:
- New patch to document filter features as requested by Andrew Morton
---
Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
index 6b12f3b007ec..6261366d33fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,17 @@ Usage
3) Do the job that you want to debug.
-4) Analyze information from page owner::
+4) (Optional) Use filters to focus on specific memory allocations::
+
+ cd /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_filter
+
+ # Print only stack handles instead of full traces
+ echo 1 > print_mode
+
+ # Filter by NUMA nodes
+ echo "0,2-3" > nid
+
+5) Analyze information from page owner::
cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks > stacks.txt
cat stacks.txt
@@ -238,6 +248,49 @@ Usage
./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --tgid=1,2,3
./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --name name1,name2
+Page Owner Filters
+==================
+
+The page_owner feature provides filtering capabilities to focus on specific
+memory allocations (e.g., by NUMA node). Filters are controlled through debugfs
+files in ``/sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_filter/``.
+
+Print Mode Filter
+-----------------
+
+The ``print_mode`` file controls the level of detail in stack trace output.
+
+Available modes:
+
+- ``0`` (default): Print full stack traces
+- ``1``: Print only stack handles
+
+The ``print_mode=1`` output format::
+
+ Page allocated via order 0, mask 0x42800(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_COMP),
+ pid 1, tgid 1 (systemd), ts 349667370 ns
+ PFN 0xa00a2 type Unmovable Block 1280 type Unmovable
+ Flags 0x33fffe0000004124(...)
+ handle: 17432583
+
+To retrieve the full stack trace for a handle, use::
+
+ cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks_handles
+
+NUMA Node Filter
+----------------
+
+The ``nid`` file filters pages by NUMA node. This is useful for NUMA-aware
+environments to analyze node-specific memory allocation.
+
+Supported input formats:
+
+- Single node: ``echo "2" > nid``
+- Multiple nodes: ``echo "0,2,3" > nid``
+- Node range: ``echo "0-3" > nid``
+- Mixed format: ``echo "0,2-4,7" > nid``
+- Disable filter: ``echo "-1" > nid``
+
STANDARD FORMAT SPECIFIERS
==========================
::
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-28 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-28 7:11 [PATCH v3 0/4] mm/page_owner: add filter infrastructure for print_mode and NUMA filtering Zhen Ni
2026-04-28 7:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] mm/page_owner: add filter infrastructure Zhen Ni
2026-04-28 7:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/page_owner: add print_mode filter Zhen Ni
2026-04-29 0:57 ` SeongJae Park
2026-04-29 8:19 ` zhen.ni
2026-04-28 7:11 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] mm/page_owner: add NUMA node filter with nodelist support Zhen Ni
2026-04-28 14:16 ` Andrew Morton
2026-04-29 7:30 ` zhen.ni
2026-04-29 1:28 ` SeongJae Park
2026-04-29 9:03 ` zhen.ni
2026-04-29 14:56 ` SeongJae Park
2026-04-30 3:56 ` zhen.ni
2026-04-30 5:16 ` SeongJae Park
2026-04-30 6:00 ` zhen.ni
2026-04-28 7:11 ` Zhen Ni [this message]
2026-04-29 1:35 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] mm/page_owner: document page_owner filter features SeongJae Park
2026-04-29 9:14 ` zhen.ni
2026-04-28 14:15 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] mm/page_owner: add filter infrastructure for print_mode and NUMA filtering Andrew Morton
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