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mm, debug: print raw struct page data in __dump_page()
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:44:35 +0000 (16:44 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 02:55:08 +0000 (18:55 -0800)
commit46e8a3a08c23d07d0f21fabeed182b671af68c93
treee7a7e0f1aec3c90a1cf0fbcc959b0f6c79c0a130
parent953c66c2b22a304dbc3c3d7fc8e8c25cd97a03d8
mm, debug: print raw struct page data in __dump_page()

__dump_page() is used when a page metadata inconsistency is detected,
either by standard runtime checks, or extra checks in CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
builds.  It prints some of the relevant metadata, but not the whole
struct page, which is based on unions and interpretation is dependent on
the context.

This means that sometimes e.g.  a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() checks certain field,
which is however not printed by __dump_page() and the resulting bug
report may then lack clues that could help in determining the root
cause.  This patch solves the problem by simply printing the whole
struct page word by word, so no part is missing, but the interpretation
of the data is left to developers.  This is similar to e.g.  x86_64 raw
stack dumps.

Example output:

 page:ffffea00000475c0 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
 flags: 0x100000000000400(reserved)
 raw: 0100000000000400 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff
 raw: ffffea00000475e0 ffffea00000475e0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(1)

[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: suggested print_hex_dump()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2ff83214-70fe-741e-bf05-fe4a4073ec3e@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/debug.c