From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>, 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>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] tools/mm/page_owner_sort: add module name sort/cull/filter support
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 10:23:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b687665-765a-486c-8a30-3bdd4f28f902@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803062056.1518070-3-ye.liu@linux.dev>
On 8/3/26 08:20, Ye Liu wrote:
> From: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
>
> Page owner stack traces already contain kernel module names in the
> "function+0xNN/0xNN [module]" format produced by %pS, but page_owner_sort
> has no way to sort, cull, or filter by module.
>
> Extract the first module name from each record's stack trace using an
> anchored regex that matches the stack trace frame format
> "+0x[0-9a-f]+/0x[0-9a-f]+\\s*\\[([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)\\]".
>
> The regex is anchored to the stack trace frame to avoid false matches on
> kernel thread comm names such as [khugepaged] that appear in the record
> header. The character class includes '-' so modules with hyphens
> (e.g. aa-bb-cc) are correctly matched.
>
> Records whose stack traces contain no module frames are assigned "vmlinux".
>
> New options:
> -M Sort by module name
> --sort=mod Sort by module name (supports +/- prefix)
> --cull=mod Cull (aggregate) by module name
> --module <modlist> Filter to records matching the given module(s)
>
> The module field is also printed in cull output when relevant.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
> ---
Nothing jumped at me when skimming over it.
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-03 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-03 6:20 [PATCH v2 0/3] tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix --sort, add module filter, improve usage Ye Liu
2026-08-03 6:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix --sort option being silently ignored Ye Liu
2026-08-03 8:17 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-03 6:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] tools/mm/page_owner_sort: add module name sort/cull/filter support Ye Liu
2026-08-03 8:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-08-03 6:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] tools/mm/page_owner_sort: show available sort keys in usage text Ye Liu
2026-08-03 8:24 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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