tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: provide allocator labelling and update --cull and --sort options

An application is suspected of having memory leak when its memory
consumption is high and keeps increasing.  There are several commonly used
memory allocators: slab, cma, vmalloc, etc.  The memory leak
identification can be sped up if the page information allocated by an
allocator can be analyzed separately.

This patch provides supports for memory allocator labelling for slab,
vmalloc, and cma.  The pages allocated by slab and cma can be confirmed
from the "PFN" line according to the kernel codes, and the label of the
vmalloc allocator can be obtained by analyzing the stack trace.  Thanks
for Vlastimil Babka's constructive suggestions.

Based on Yinan Zhang's study, the call chain of vmalloc() is vmalloc() ->
...  -> __vmalloc_node_range() -> __vmalloc_area_node(). 
__vmalloc_area_node() requests memory through the interface of buddy
allocation system.  In the current version, __vmalloc_area_node() uses
four interfaces: alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy(),
alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(), alloc_pages() and alloc_pages_node().  By
disassembling the code, we find that __vmalloc_area_node() is expanded in
__vmalloc_node_range().  So __vmalloc_area_node is not in the stack trace.

On the test machine, the stack trace of pages allocated by vmalloc has the
following four forms:

__alloc_pages_bulk+0x230/0x6a0
__vmalloc_node_range+0x19c/0x598

alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy+0xbc/0x278
__vmalloc_node_range+0x1e8/0x598

__alloc_pages+0x160/0x2b0
__vmalloc_node_range+0x234/0x598

alloc_pages+0xac/0x150
__vmalloc_node_range+0x44c/0x598

Therefore, in two consecutive lines of stacktrace, if the first line
contains the word "alloc_pages" and the second line contains the word
"__vmalloc_node_range", it can be determined that the page is allocated by
vmalloc.  And the function offset and size are not the same on different
machines, so there is no need to match them.

At the same time, this patch updates the --cull and --sort options to
support allocator-based merge statistics and sorting.  The added functions
are fully compatible with the original work.  When using, you can use
"allocator", or abbreviated as "ator".  Relevant updates have also been
made in the documentation(Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst).

Example:
./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --cull=st,pid,name,allocator
./page_owner_sort <input> <output> --sort=ator,pid,name

This work is coauthored by Jiajian Ye, Yinan Zhang, Shenghong Han,
Chongxi Zhao, Yuhong Feng and Yongqiang Liu.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Yixuan Cao <[email protected]>
Cc: Chongxi Zhao <[email protected]>
Cc: Haowen Bai <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiajian Ye <[email protected]>
Cc: Sean Anderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Shenghong Han <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinan Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Yongqiang Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuhong Feng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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