Re: [PATCH V2 0/2] Introduce slabinfo version 2.2

[Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>]

On 2024/2/20 14:25, zhang fangzheng wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 7:29 PM Chengming Zhou
> <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2024/2/19 11:19, Fangzheng Zhang wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This series introduces slabinfo version 2.2 to users.
>>> In slabinfo V2.2, we added a slabreclaim column to
>>> record whether each slab pool is of reclaim type.
>>> This will be more conducive for users to obtain
>>> the type of each slabdata more intuitively than through
>>> the interface /sys/kernel/slab/$cache/reclaim_account.
>>
>> I want to recommend a better tool: drgn[1] for these tasks, instead of changing
>> the output format of /proc/slabinfo, which may break existing userspace tools.
>>
>> [1] https://drgn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#
>>
> 
> Thank you very much for providing a new way.
> I have the following three questions about the new tool you provided:
> ---- 1. From the introduction, the tool is described as an alternative
> to the crash utility.
>           Will the permission requirements have different effects when
> used, user or userdebug?
> ----  2. The 'Helpers' chapter introduces the simple use of
> common.memory, but there is no output example.
>            It involves the use of slab objects, but it also needs to
> provide a specific slab_cache_name,
>            which cannot give an intuitive overall information like
> proc/slabinfo.

You can of course use drgn to iterate over all slabs by using the global
"slab_caches" list. (All kernel space is at your hand.)

>            I guess it is difficult to achieve direct output of slab
> type (reclaim or unreclaim). I don’t know, right?

It's easy for drgn to inspect each slab's information.

> ---- 3. Regarding the supported versions, is it supported for both
> arm/arm64? I don't seem to have seen any similar instructions.
> Finally, I would like to express my gratitude again. This tool will be
> very helpful for me in other future work.

Please check https://github.com/osandov/drgn for details.

Thanks.