From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-dev@igalia.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] mm/page_owner: update Documentation with 'print_handle' and 'print_stack'
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:40:23 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250924174023.261125-4-mfo@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250924174023.261125-1-mfo@igalia.com>
Describe and provide examples for 'print_handle' and 'print_stack'.
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>
---
Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
index 3a45a20fc05a..fac14ff2e4a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ enabled. Other usages are more than welcome.
It can also be used to show all the stacks and their current number of
allocated base pages, which gives us a quick overview of where the memory
is going without the need to screen through all the pages and match the
-allocation and free operation.
+allocation and free operation. It's also possible to show only a numeric
+identifier of all the stacks (without stack traces) and their number of
+allocated base pages (faster to read and parse, eg, for monitoring) that
+can be matched with stacks later (options print_handle and print_stack).
page owner is disabled by default. So, if you'd like to use it, you need
to add "page_owner=on" to your boot cmdline. If the kernel is built
@@ -95,6 +98,7 @@ Usage
...
...
echo 7000 > /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/count_threshold
+ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/print_handle
cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks> stacks_7000.txt
cat stacks_7000.txt
post_alloc_hook+0x177/0x1a0
@@ -113,6 +117,15 @@ Usage
__do_sys_finit_module+0x381/0x730
do_syscall_64+0x8d/0x150
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x62/0x6a
+ handle: 42
+ nr_base_pages: 20824
+ ...
+
+ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/print_handle
+ echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/print_stack
+ cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner_stacks/show_stacks > handles_7000.txt
+ cat handles_7000.txt
+ handle: 42
nr_base_pages: 20824
...
--
2.48.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-24 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-24 17:40 [PATCH 0/3] mm/page_owner: add options 'print_handle' and 'print_stack' for 'show_stacks' Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2025-09-24 17:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/page_owner: add option 'print_handle' " Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2025-09-25 20:28 ` Joshua Hahn
2025-09-25 22:25 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2025-09-24 17:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/page_owner: add option 'print_stack' " Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2025-09-24 17:40 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira [this message]
2025-09-25 16:08 ` [PATCH 0/3] mm/page_owner: add options 'print_handle' and " Michal Hocko
2025-09-25 19:38 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2025-09-26 6:55 ` Michal Hocko
2025-09-26 16:47 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2025-09-30 14:02 ` Michal Hocko
2025-09-30 14:32 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
2025-10-01 10:58 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-01 17:37 ` Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
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