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authorSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>2024-03-21 19:36:35 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-04-26 06:55:52 +0300
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lib: add allocation tagging support for memory allocation profiling
Introduce CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING which provides definitions to easily instrument memory allocators. It registers an "alloc_tags" codetag type with /proc/allocinfo interface to output allocation tag information when the feature is enabled. CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG is provided for debugging the memory allocation profiling instrumentation. Memory allocation profiling can be enabled or disabled at runtime using /proc/sys/vm/mem_profiling sysctl when CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=n. CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT enables memory allocation profiling by default. [surenb@google.com: Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst: fix allocinfo title] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326073813.727090-1-surenb@google.com [surenb@google.com: do limited memory accounting for modules with ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240402180933.1663992-2-surenb@google.com [klarasmodin@gmail.com: explicitly include irqflags.h in alloc_tag.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240407133252.173636-1-klarasmodin@gmail.com [surenb@google.com: fix alloc_tag_init() to prevent passing NULL to PTR_ERR()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240417003349.2520094-1-surenb@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-14-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Co-developed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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+ allocinfo Memory allocations profiling information
apm Advanced power management info
bootconfig Kernel command line obtained from boot config,
and, if there were kernel parameters from the
@@ -953,6 +954,34 @@ also be allocatable although a lot of filesystem metadata may have to be
reclaimed to achieve this.
+allocinfo
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+Provides information about memory allocations at all locations in the code
+base. Each allocation in the code is identified by its source file, line
+number, module (if originates from a loadable module) and the function calling
+the allocation. The number of bytes allocated and number of calls at each
+location are reported.
+
+Example output.
+
+::
+
+ > sort -rn /proc/allocinfo
+ 127664128 31168 mm/page_ext.c:270 func:alloc_page_ext
+ 56373248 4737 mm/slub.c:2259 func:alloc_slab_page
+ 14880768 3633 mm/readahead.c:247 func:page_cache_ra_unbounded
+ 14417920 3520 mm/mm_init.c:2530 func:alloc_large_system_hash
+ 13377536 234 block/blk-mq.c:3421 func:blk_mq_alloc_rqs
+ 11718656 2861 mm/filemap.c:1919 func:__filemap_get_folio
+ 9192960 2800 kernel/fork.c:307 func:alloc_thread_stack_node
+ 4206592 4 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2567 func:nf_ct_alloc_hashtable
+ 4136960 1010 drivers/staging/ctagmod/ctagmod.c:20 [ctagmod] func:ctagmod_start
+ 3940352 962 mm/memory.c:4214 func:alloc_anon_folio
+ 2894464 22613 fs/kernfs/dir.c:615 func:__kernfs_new_node
+ ...
+
+
meminfo
~~~~~~~