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| author |   Oliver Glitta <glittao@gmail.com> | 2021-06-08 10:45:17 +0200 |
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| committer |   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2022-04-06 11:09:48 +0200 |
| commit | 9f04b55f003ccd00cf5e47bfb4116457f591d6de (patch) | |
| tree | 2684d541efcdd4aacbc2c3b24f868a2ed9a9c8d2 /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | mm/slub: sort debugfs output by frequency of stack traces (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-9f04b55f003ccd00cf5e47bfb4116457f591d6de.tar.xz linux-dev-9f04b55f003ccd00cf5e47bfb4116457f591d6de.zip | |
slab, documentation: add description of debugfs files for SLUB caches
Add description of debugfs files alloc_traces and free_traces
to SLUB cache documentation.
[ vbabka@suse.cz: some rewording ]
Signed-off-by: Oliver Glitta <glittao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/slub.rst | 64 |
1 files changed, 64 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst index d3028554b1e9..43063ade737a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst @@ -384,5 +384,69 @@ c) Execute ``slabinfo-gnuplot.sh`` in '-t' mode, passing all of the 40,60`` range will plot only samples collected between 40th and 60th seconds). + +DebugFS files for SLUB +====================== + +For more information about current state of SLUB caches with the user tracking +debug option enabled, debugfs files are available, typically under +/sys/kernel/debug/slab/<cache>/ (created only for caches with enabled user +tracking). There are 2 types of these files with the following debug +information: + +1. alloc_traces:: + + Prints information about unique allocation traces of the currently + allocated objects. The output is sorted by frequency of each trace. + + Information in the output: + Number of objects, allocating function, minimal/average/maximal jiffies since alloc, + pid range of the allocating processes, cpu mask of allocating cpus, and stack trace. + + Example::: + + 1085 populate_error_injection_list+0x97/0x110 age=166678/166680/166682 pid=1 cpus=1:: + __slab_alloc+0x6d/0x90 + kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2eb/0x300 + populate_error_injection_list+0x97/0x110 + init_error_injection+0x1b/0x71 + do_one_initcall+0x5f/0x2d0 + kernel_init_freeable+0x26f/0x2d7 + kernel_init+0xe/0x118 + ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 + + +2. free_traces:: + + Prints information about unique freeing traces of the currently allocated + objects. The freeing traces thus come from the previous life-cycle of the + objects and are reported as not available for objects allocated for the first + time. The output is sorted by frequency of each trace. + + Information in the output: + Number of objects, freeing function, minimal/average/maximal jiffies since free, + pid range of the freeing processes, cpu mask of freeing cpus, and stack trace. + + Example::: + + 1980 <not-available> age=4294912290 pid=0 cpus=0 + 51 acpi_ut_update_ref_count+0x6a6/0x782 age=236886/237027/237772 pid=1 cpus=1 + kfree+0x2db/0x420 + acpi_ut_update_ref_count+0x6a6/0x782 + acpi_ut_update_object_reference+0x1ad/0x234 + acpi_ut_remove_reference+0x7d/0x84 + acpi_rs_get_prt_method_data+0x97/0xd6 + acpi_get_irq_routing_table+0x82/0xc4 + acpi_pci_irq_find_prt_entry+0x8e/0x2e0 + acpi_pci_irq_lookup+0x3a/0x1e0 + acpi_pci_irq_enable+0x77/0x240 + pcibios_enable_device+0x39/0x40 + do_pci_enable_device.part.0+0x5d/0xe0 + pci_enable_device_flags+0xfc/0x120 + pci_enable_device+0x13/0x20 + virtio_pci_probe+0x9e/0x170 + local_pci_probe+0x48/0x80 + pci_device_probe+0x105/0x1c0 + Christoph Lameter, May 30, 2007 Sergey Senozhatsky, October 23, 2015 |