mm/page_owner: record and dump free_pid and free_tgid
authorBarry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:42:02 +0000 (16:42 +1300)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:51:40 +0000 (16:51 -0800)
commit1b5c65b64cd417c801945b26a2a50c4d4eefaec8
tree29d4cda85feb7114ebc48b48a6b1483e47cf2f52
parent20954c122f1bb09af095a51b66ddead13b6c6ef4
mm/page_owner: record and dump free_pid and free_tgid

While investigating some complex memory allocation and free bugs
especially in multi-processes and multi-threads cases, from time to time,
I feel the free stack isn't sufficient as a page can be freed by processes
or threads other than the one allocating it.  And other processes and
threads which free the page often have the exactly same free stack with
the one allocating the page.  We can't know who free the page only through
the free stack though the current page_owner does tell us the pid and tgid
of the one allocating the page.  This makes the bug investigation often
hard.

So this patch adds free pid and tgid in page_owner, so that we can easily
figure out if the freeing is crossing processes or threads.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231114034202.73098-1-v-songbaohua@oppo.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Audra Mitchell <audra@redhat.com>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Kassey Li <quic_yingangl@quicinc.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_owner.c