Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm/show_mem: Add trylock while printing alloc info

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 9/3/25 13:16, Yueyang Pan wrote:
> In production, show_mem() can be called concurrently from two
> different entities, for example one from oom_kill_process()
> another from __alloc_pages_slowpath from another kthread. This
> patch adds a spinlock and invokes trylock before printing out the
> kernel alloc info in show_mem(). This way two alloc info won't
> interleave with each other, which then makes parsing easier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yueyang Pan <pyyjason@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/show_mem.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/show_mem.c b/mm/show_mem.c
> index fd85a028a926..e9701d07549b 100644
> --- a/mm/show_mem.c
> +++ b/mm/show_mem.c
> @@ -421,7 +421,9 @@ void __show_mem(unsigned int filter, nodemask_t *nodemask, int max_zone_idx)
>  	printk("%lu pages hwpoisoned\n", atomic_long_read(&num_poisoned_pages));
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING
> -	{
> +	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(mem_alloc_profiling_spinlock);
> +
> +	if (spin_trylock(&mem_alloc_profiling_spinlock)) {
>  		struct codetag_bytes tags[10];
>  		size_t i, nr;
>  
> @@ -448,6 +450,7 @@ void __show_mem(unsigned int filter, nodemask_t *nodemask, int max_zone_idx)
>  						  ct->lineno, ct->function);
>  			}
>  		}
> +		spin_unlock(&mem_alloc_profiling_spinlock);
>  	}
>  #endif
>  }