Re: sched_debug / traverse allocation failures.

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 03:49:47PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

> I added some instrumentation to traverse, and it appears that the /proc file
> in question is 'sched_debug'.
> 
> Most the time this is quite small, but can grow to large lengths it seems,
> which when we're under memory fragmentation results in the spew above.
> 
> >From my reading of the code, it doesn't actually use the seq_operations,
> to print out things record-at-a-time, but just dumps everything
> in its ->open routine.

Not ->open(), first ->read(), actually.  I'd suggest turning that
sucker into a saner iterator, though - it spews a smallish header
followed by a set of per-CPU entries, so I'd probably start with
something like
static void *c_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
{
	unsigned long n = *pos;
        if (n == 0)
		return (void *)1;	/* header */
	n--;
	/* find the first online CPU >= requested position */
	if (n > 0)
		n = cpumask_next(n - 1, cpu_online_mask);
	else
                n = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
	*pos = n + 1;
        if (n < nr_cpu_ids)
                return (void *)(unsigned long)(n + 2);	/* CPU #n */
        return NULL;			/* EOF */
}

static void *c_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *pos)
{
        (*pos)++;
        return c_start(m, pos);
}

static int c_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
{
	if (v == (void *)1) {
		print header
	} else {
		unsigned long cpu = (unsigned long)v - 2;
		print for that cpu
	}
}