On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Yang Shi wrote:

> --- a/mm/slab_common.c
> +++ b/mm/slab_common.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
>  static DECLARE_WORK(slab_caches_to_rcu_destroy_work,
>                   slab_caches_to_rcu_destroy_workfn);
>  
> +#define K(x) ((x)/1024)
> +
>  /*
>   * Set of flags that will prevent slab merging
>   */
> @@ -1272,6 +1274,34 @@ static int slab_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> +void show_unreclaimable_slab()
> +{
> +     struct kmem_cache *s = NULL;
> +     struct slabinfo sinfo;
> +
> +     memset(&sinfo, 0, sizeof(sinfo));
> +
> +     printk("Unreclaimable slabs:\n");
> +
> +     /*
> +      * Here acquiring slab_mutex is unnecessary since we don't prefer to
> +      * get sleep in oom path right before kernel panic, and avoid race 
> condition.
> +      * Since it is already oom, so there should be not any big allocation
> +      * which could change the statistics significantly.
> +      */
> +     list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) {
> +             if (!is_root_cache(s))
> +                     continue;
> +
> +             get_slabinfo(s, &sinfo);
> +
> +             if (!is_reclaimable(s) && sinfo.num_objs > 0)
> +                     printk("%-17s %luKB\n", cache_name(s), K(sinfo.num_objs 
> * s->size));
> +     }

I like this, but could we be even more helpful by giving the user more 
information from sinfo beyond just the total size of objects allocated?

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