From: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>, David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix --sort, add module filter, improve usage
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:37:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260722023726.600200-1-ye.liu@linux.dev> (raw)
From: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
This series improves the page_owner_sort tool with a bug fix, a new
module-name feature, and better usage text.
Patch 1 fixes a long-standing bug where --sort was silently ignored
when used without a short option (-a, -m, -p, etc.). The COMP_NO_FLAG
case fell through to COMP_NUM and overwrote the sort conditions
configured by parse_sort_args().
Patch 2 adds kernel module name support for sort, cull, and filter
operations. Page owner stack traces already contain module names in
the [module] format produced by %pS, but page_owner_sort had no way
to use them. Records without module frames are assigned "vmlinux".
# Aggregate page usage per module
./page_owner_sort input.txt output.txt --cull=mod
# Filter to records from xfs module only
./page_owner_sort input.txt output.txt --module xfs
# Sort by module name, then by pid descending
./page_owner_sort input.txt output.txt --sort=mod,-pid
Patch 3 lists all available sort keys with abbreviations and examples
directly in the --sort help section so users no longer need to read
the source to discover valid keys.
Ye Liu (3):
tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix --sort option being silently ignored
tools/mm/page_owner_sort: add module name sort/cull/filter support
tools/mm/page_owner_sort: show available sort keys in usage text
Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 8 +-
tools/mm/page_owner_sort.c | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
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2.25.1
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-22 2:37 Ye Liu [this message]
2026-07-22 2:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix --sort option being silently ignored Ye Liu
2026-07-22 2:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] tools/mm/page_owner_sort: add module name sort/cull/filter support Ye Liu
2026-07-22 2:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] tools/mm/page_owner_sort: show available sort keys in usage text Ye Liu
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