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mm/show_mem: add trylock while printing alloc info
authorYueyang Pan <pyyjason@gmail.com>
Wed, 3 Sep 2025 11:16:14 +0000 (04:16 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:22:18 +0000 (14:22 -0700)
commit8147bc15b409c8ca52e98c6692273dd9bc5c6905
treeae5398eed15884a38f7e39a9725679a1511824a5
parent9abd8bd4c6b16d152b7149ef2f27a606ae4ebf4e
mm/show_mem: add trylock while printing alloc info

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.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ed91296e0c595d945a38458f7a8d9611b0c1e52.1756897825.git.pyyjason@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yueyang Pan <pyyjason@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/show_mem.c