Merge tag 'slab-for-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab

Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:

 - Conversion of slub_debug stack traces to stackdepot, allowing more
   useful debugfs-based inspection for e.g. memory leak debugging.
   Allocation and free debugfs info now includes full traces and is
   sorted by the unique trace frequency.

   The stackdepot conversion was already attempted last year but
   reverted by ae14c63a9f20. The memory overhead (while not actually
   enabled on boot) has been meanwhile solved by making the large
   stackdepot allocation dynamic. The xfstest issues haven't been
   reproduced on current kernel locally nor in -next, so the slab cache
   layout changes that originally made that bug manifest were probably
   not the root cause.

 - Refactoring of dma-kmalloc caches creation.

 - Trivial cleanups such as removal of unused parameters, fixes and
   clarifications of comments.

 - Hyeonggon Yoo joins as a reviewer.

* tag 'slab-for-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
  MAINTAINERS: add myself as reviewer for slab
  mm/slub: remove unused kmem_cache_order_objects max
  mm: slab: fix comment for __assume_kmalloc_alignment
  mm: slab: fix comment for ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
  mm/slub: remove unneeded return value of slab_pad_check
  mm/slab_common: move dma-kmalloc caches creation into new_kmalloc_cache()
  mm/slub: remove meaningless node check in ___slab_alloc()
  mm/slub: remove duplicate flag in allocate_slab()
  mm/slub: remove unused parameter in setup_object*()
  mm/slab.c: fix comments
  slab, documentation: add description of debugfs files for SLUB caches
  mm/slub: sort debugfs output by frequency of stack traces
  mm/slub: distinguish and print stack traces in debugfs files
  mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects
  mm/slub: move struct track init out of set_track()
  lib/stackdepot: allow requesting early initialization dynamically
  mm/slub, kunit: Make slub_kunit unaffected by user specified flags
  mm/slab: remove some unused functions

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