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.deCo-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>
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