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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2009-06-16 15:33:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-16 19:47:44 -0700
commit608e8e66a154cbc3d591a59dcebfd9cbc9e3431a (patch)
tree460c5ff888d0305d875049fbb6117c34d1c5df7a /scripts
parent168f5ac668f63dfb64439766e3ef9e866b83719d (diff)
mm: add a gfp-translate script to help understand page allocation failure reports
The page allocation failure messages include a line that looks like page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x4020 The mode is easy to translate but irritating for the lazy and a bit error prone. This patch adds a very simple helper script gfp-translate for the mode: portion of the page allocation failure messages. An example usage looks like mel@machina:~/linux-2.6 $ scripts/gfp-translate 0x4020 Source: /home/mel/linux-2.6 Parsing: 0x4020 #define __GFP_HIGH (0x20) /* Should access emergency pools? */ #define __GFP_COMP (0x4000) /* Add compound page metadata */ The script is not a work of art but it has come in handy for me a few times so I thought I would share. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify an error message] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
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1 files changed, 81 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gfp-translate b/scripts/gfp-translate
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..073cb6d152a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/gfp-translate
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+#!/bin/bash
+# Translate the bits making up a GFP mask
+# (c) 2009, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
+# Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2
+SOURCE=
+GFPMASK=none
+
+# Helper function to report failures and exit
+die() {
+ echo ERROR: $@
+ if [ "$TMPFILE" != "" ]; then
+ rm -f $TMPFILE
+ fi
+ exit -1
+}
+
+usage() {
+ echo "usage: gfp-translate [-h] [ --source DIRECTORY ] gfpmask"
+ exit 0
+}
+
+# Parse command-line arguements
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+ case $1 in
+ --source)
+ SOURCE=$2
+ shift 2
+ ;;
+ -h)
+ usage
+ ;;
+ --help)
+ usage
+ ;;
+ *)
+ GFPMASK=$1
+ shift
+ ;;
+ esac
+done
+
+# Guess the kernel source directory if it's not set. Preference is in order of
+# o current directory
+# o /usr/src/linux
+if [ "$SOURCE" = "" ]; then
+ if [ -r "/usr/src/linux/Makefile" ]; then
+ SOURCE=/usr/src/linux
+ fi
+ if [ -r "`pwd`/Makefile" ]; then
+ SOURCE=`pwd`
+ fi
+fi
+
+# Confirm that a source directory exists
+if [ ! -r "$SOURCE/Makefile" ]; then
+ die "Could not locate kernel source directory or it is invalid"
+fi
+
+# Confirm that a GFP mask has been specified
+if [ "$GFPMASK" = "none" ]; then
+ usage
+fi
+
+# Extract GFP flags from the kernel source
+TMPFILE=`mktemp -t gfptranslate-XXXXXX` || exit 1
+grep "^#define __GFP" $SOURCE/include/linux/gfp.h | sed -e 's/(__force gfp_t)//' | sed -e 's/u)/)/' | grep -v GFP_BITS | sed -e 's/)\//) \//' > $TMPFILE
+
+# Parse the flags
+IFS="
+"
+echo Source: $SOURCE
+echo Parsing: $GFPMASK
+for LINE in `cat $TMPFILE`; do
+ MASK=`echo $LINE | awk '{print $3}'`
+ if [ $(($GFPMASK&$MASK)) -ne 0 ]; then
+ echo $LINE
+ fi
+done
+
+rm -f $TMPFILE
+exit 0