lib/stackdepot: fix first entry having a 0-handle
authorOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:59:01 +0000 (22:59 +0100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 24 Feb 2024 01:48:16 +0000 (17:48 -0800)
commit3ee34eabac2abb6b1b6fcdebffe18870719ad000
tree5971c8b0cee3a36737818e61ee5d209f7bfb37e6
parent1f1183c4c0bc609c98b71ab9281ff72533d89bb0
lib/stackdepot: fix first entry having a 0-handle

Patch series "page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations",
v10.

page_owner is a great debug functionality tool that lets us know about all
pages that have been allocated/freed and their specific stacktrace.  This
comes very handy when debugging memory leaks, since with some scripting we
can see the outstanding allocations, which might point to a memory leak.

In my experience, that is one of the most useful cases, but it can get
really tedious to screen through all pages and try to reconstruct the
stack <-> allocated/freed relationship, becoming most of the time a
daunting and slow process when we have tons of allocation/free operations.

This patchset aims to ease that by adding a new functionality into
page_owner.  This functionality creates a new directory called
'page_owner_stacks' under 'sys/kernel//debug' with a read-only file called
'show_stacks', which prints out all the stacks followed by their
outstanding number of allocations (being that the times the stacktrace has
allocated but not freed yet).  This gives us a clear and a quick overview
of stacks <-> allocated/free.

We take advantage of the new refcount_f field that stack_record struct
gained, and increment/decrement the stack refcount on every
__set_page_owner() (alloc operation) and __reset_page_owner (free
operation) call.

Unfortunately, we cannot use the new stackdepot api STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_GET
because it does not fulfill page_owner needs, meaning we would have to
special case things, at which point makes more sense for page_owner to do
its own {dec,inc}rementing of the stacks.  E.g: Using
STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_PUT, once the refcount reaches 0, such stack gets
evicted, so page_owner would lose information.

This patchset also creates a new file called 'set_threshold' within
'page_owner_stacks' directory, and by writing a value to it, the stacks
which refcount is below such value will be filtered out.

A PoC can be found below:

 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks > page_owner_full_stacks.txt
 # head -40 page_owner_full_stacks.txt
  prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
  get_page_from_freelist+0x801/0x2210
  __alloc_pages+0x18b/0x350
  alloc_pages_mpol+0x91/0x1f0
  folio_alloc+0x14/0x50
  filemap_alloc_folio+0xb2/0x100
  page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x96/0x180
  filemap_get_pages+0xfd/0x590
  filemap_read+0xcc/0x330
  blkdev_read_iter+0xb8/0x150
  vfs_read+0x285/0x320
  ksys_read+0xa5/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0x80/0x160
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
 stack_count: 521

  prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
  get_page_from_freelist+0x801/0x2210
  __alloc_pages+0x18b/0x350
  alloc_pages_mpol+0x91/0x1f0
  folio_alloc+0x14/0x50
  filemap_alloc_folio+0xb2/0x100
  __filemap_get_folio+0x14a/0x490
  ext4_write_begin+0xbd/0x4b0 [ext4]
  generic_perform_write+0xc1/0x1e0
  ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x68/0xe0 [ext4]
  ext4_file_write_iter+0x70/0x740 [ext4]
  vfs_write+0x33d/0x420
  ksys_write+0xa5/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0x80/0x160
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
 stack_count: 4609
...
...

 # echo 5000 > /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/set_threshold
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks > page_owner_full_stacks_5000.txt
 # head -40 page_owner_full_stacks_5000.txt
  prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
  get_page_from_freelist+0x801/0x2210
  __alloc_pages+0x18b/0x350
  alloc_pages_mpol+0x91/0x1f0
  folio_alloc+0x14/0x50
  filemap_alloc_folio+0xb2/0x100
  __filemap_get_folio+0x14a/0x490
  ext4_write_begin+0xbd/0x4b0 [ext4]
  generic_perform_write+0xc1/0x1e0
  ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x68/0xe0 [ext4]
  ext4_file_write_iter+0x70/0x740 [ext4]
  vfs_write+0x33d/0x420
  ksys_pwrite64+0x75/0x90
  do_syscall_64+0x80/0x160
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
 stack_count: 6781

  prep_new_page+0xa9/0x120
  get_page_from_freelist+0x801/0x2210
  __alloc_pages+0x18b/0x350
  pcpu_populate_chunk+0xec/0x350
  pcpu_balance_workfn+0x2d1/0x4a0
  process_scheduled_works+0x84/0x380
  worker_thread+0x12a/0x2a0
  kthread+0xe3/0x110
  ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
 stack_count: 8641

This patch (of 7):

The very first entry of stack_record gets a handle of 0, but this is wrong
because stackdepot treats a 0-handle as a non-valid one.  E.g: See the
check in stack_depot_fetch()

Fix this by adding and offset of 1.

This bug has been lurking since the very beginning of stackdepot, but no
one really cared as it seems.  Because of that I am not adding a Fixes
tag.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215215907.20121-1-osalvador@suse.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215215907.20121-2-osalvador@suse.de
Co-developed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
lib/stackdepot.c