[PATCH V2 2/2] mm: Add sysfs interface to dump each node's zonelist information

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Tue Sep 06 2016 - 01:34:56 EST


Each individual node in the system has a ZONELIST_FALLBACK zonelist
and a ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK zonelist. These zonelists decide fallback
order of zones during memory allocations. Sometimes it helps to dump
these zonelists to see the priority order of various zones in them.

Particularly platforms which support memory hotplug into previously
non existing zones (at boot), this interface helps in visualizing
which all zonelists of the system at what priority level, the new
hot added memory ends up in. POWER is such a platform where all the
memory detected during boot time remains with ZONE_DMA for good but
then hot plug process can actually get new memory into ZONE_MOVABLE.
So having a way to get the snapshot of the zonelists on the system
after memory or node hot[un]plug is desirable. This change adds one
new sysfs interface (/sys/devices/system/memory/system_zone_details)
which will fetch and dump this information.

Example zonelist information from a KVM guest.

[NODE (0)]
ZONELIST_FALLBACK
(0) (node 0) (zone DMA c00000000140c000)
(1) (node 1) (zone DMA c000000100000000)
(2) (node 2) (zone DMA c000000200000000)
(3) (node 3) (zone DMA c000000300000000)
ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK
(0) (node 0) (zone DMA c00000000140c000)
[NODE (1)]
ZONELIST_FALLBACK
(0) (node 1) (zone DMA c000000100000000)
(1) (node 2) (zone DMA c000000200000000)
(2) (node 3) (zone DMA c000000300000000)
(3) (node 0) (zone DMA c00000000140c000)
ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK
(0) (node 1) (zone DMA c000000100000000)
[NODE (2)]
ZONELIST_FALLBACK
(0) (node 2) (zone DMA c000000200000000)
(1) (node 3) (zone DMA c000000300000000)
(2) (node 0) (zone DMA c00000000140c000)
(3) (node 1) (zone DMA c000000100000000)
ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK
(0) (node 2) (zone DMA c000000200000000)
[NODE (3)]
ZONELIST_FALLBACK
(0) (node 3) (zone DMA c000000300000000)
(1) (node 0) (zone DMA c00000000140c000)
(2) (node 1) (zone DMA c000000100000000)
(3) (node 2) (zone DMA c000000200000000)
ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK
(0) (node 3) (zone DMA c000000300000000)

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in V2:
- Added more details into the commit message
- Added sysfs interface file details into the commit message
- Added ../ABI/testing/sysfs-system-zone-details file

.../ABI/testing/sysfs-system-zone-details | 9 +++++
drivers/base/memory.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-system-zone-details

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-system-zone-details b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-system-zone-details
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c13b2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-system-zone-details
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+What: /sys/devices/system/memory/system_zone_details
+Date: Sep 2016
+KernelVersion: 4.8
+Contact: khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+Description:
+ This read only file dumps the zonelist and it's constituent
+ zones information for both ZONELIST_FALLBACK and ZONELIST_
+ NOFALLBACK zonelists for each online node of the system at
+ any given point of time.
diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index dc75de9..8c9330a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -442,7 +442,52 @@ print_block_size(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
return sprintf(buf, "%lx\n", get_memory_block_size());
}

+static ssize_t dump_zonelist(char *buf, struct zonelist *zonelist)
+{
+ unsigned int i;
+ ssize_t count = 0;
+
+ for (i = 0; zonelist->_zonerefs[i].zone; i++) {
+ count += sprintf(buf + count,
+ "\t\t(%d) (node %d) (%-10s %lx)\n", i,
+ zonelist->_zonerefs[i].zone->zone_pgdat->node_id,
+ zone_names[zonelist->_zonerefs[i].zone_idx],
+ (unsigned long) zonelist->_zonerefs[i].zone);
+ }
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t dump_zonelists(char *buf)
+{
+ struct zonelist *zonelist;
+ unsigned int node;
+ ssize_t count = 0;
+
+ for_each_online_node(node) {
+ zonelist = &(NODE_DATA(node)->
+ node_zonelists[ZONELIST_FALLBACK]);
+ count += sprintf(buf + count, "[NODE (%d)]\n", node);
+ count += sprintf(buf + count, "\tZONELIST_FALLBACK\n");
+ count += dump_zonelist(buf + count, zonelist);
+
+ zonelist = &(NODE_DATA(node)->
+ node_zonelists[ZONELIST_NOFALLBACK]);
+ count += sprintf(buf + count, "\tZONELIST_NOFALLBACK\n");
+ count += dump_zonelist(buf + count, zonelist);
+ }
+ return count;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+print_system_zone_details(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf)
+{
+ return dump_zonelists(buf);
+}
+
+
static DEVICE_ATTR(block_size_bytes, 0444, print_block_size, NULL);
+static DEVICE_ATTR(system_zone_details, 0444, print_system_zone_details, NULL);

/*
* Memory auto online policy.
@@ -783,6 +828,7 @@ static struct attribute *memory_root_attrs[] = {
#endif

&dev_attr_block_size_bytes.attr,
+ &dev_attr_system_zone_details.attr,
&dev_attr_auto_online_blocks.attr,
NULL
};
--
2.1.0