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authorShenghong Han <hanshenghong2019@email.szu.edu.cn>2022-03-24 18:08:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-24 19:06:44 -0700
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Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst: update the documentation
Update the documentation of ``page_owner``. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: small grammatical tweaks] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211214134736.2569-1-hanshenghong2019@email.szu.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Shenghong Han <hanshenghong2019@email.szu.edu.cn> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@linaro.org> Cc: Liam Mark <lmark@codeaurora.org> Cc: Tang Bin <tangbin@cmss.chinamobile.com> Cc: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@cmss.chinamobile.com> Cc: Zhenliang Wei <weizhenliang@huawei.com> Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Usage
The ``page_owner_sort`` tool ignores ``PFN`` rows, puts the remaining rows
in buf, uses regexp to extract the page order value, counts the times
- and pages of buf, and finally sorts them according to the times.
+ and pages of buf, and finally sorts them according to the parameter(s).
See the result about who allocated each page
in the ``sorted_page_owner.txt``. General output::
@@ -107,4 +107,23 @@ Usage
// Detailed stack
By default, ``page_owner_sort`` is sorted according to the times of buf.
- If you want to sort by the pages nums of buf, use the ``-m`` parameter.
+ If you want to sort by the page nums of buf, use the ``-m`` parameter.
+ The detailed parameters are:
+
+ fundamental function:
+
+ Sort:
+ -a Sort by memory allocation time.
+ -m Sort by total memory.
+ -p Sort by pid.
+ -r Sort by memory release time.
+ -s Sort by stack trace.
+ -t Sort by times (default).
+
+ additional function:
+
+ Cull:
+ -c Cull by comparing stacktrace instead of total block.
+
+ Filter:
+ -f Filter out the information of blocks whose memory has not been released.