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    SubjectRe: [patch 12/17] LTTng instrumentation - page
    * Peter Zijlstra (peterz@infradead.org) wrote:
    > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 18:26 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
    > > plain text document attachment (lttng-instrumentation-page.patch)
    > > Paging activity instrumentation. Instruments page allocation/free to keep track
    > > of page allocation. This does not cover hugetlb activity, which is covered by a
    > > separate patch.
    > >
    > > Those tracepoints are used by LTTng.
    > >
    > > About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to markers),
    > > even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by Hideo Aoki on ia64
    > > show no regression. His test case was using hackbench on a kernel where
    > > scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code scheduler code) was added.
    > > See the "Tracepoints" patch header for performance result detail.
    > >
    > > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
    > > CC: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
    > > CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
    > > CC: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
    > > CC: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
    > > CC: 'Ingo Molnar' <mingo@elte.hu>
    > > CC: 'Hideo AOKI' <haoki@redhat.com>
    > > CC: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
    > > CC: 'Steven Rostedt' <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    > > CC: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
    > > ---
    > > include/trace/page.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
    > > mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ++++++
    > > 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
    > >
    > > Index: linux-2.6-lttng/mm/page_alloc.c
    > > ===================================================================
    > > --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2008-07-15 13:54:46.000000000 -0400
    > > +++ linux-2.6-lttng/mm/page_alloc.c 2008-07-15 14:04:38.000000000 -0400
    > > @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
    > > #include <linux/page-isolation.h>
    > > #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
    > > #include <linux/debugobjects.h>
    > > +#include <trace/page.h>
    > >
    > > #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
    > > #include <asm/div64.h>
    > > @@ -510,6 +511,8 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page
    > > int i;
    > > int reserved = 0;
    > >
    > > + trace_page_free(page, order);
    > > +
    > > for (i = 0 ; i < (1 << order) ; ++i)
    > > reserved += free_pages_check(page + i);
    > > if (reserved)
    > > @@ -966,6 +969,8 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct pa
    > > struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
    > > unsigned long flags;
    > >
    > > + trace_page_free(page, 0);
    > > +
    > > if (PageAnon(page))
    > > page->mapping = NULL;
    > > if (free_pages_check(page))
    > > @@ -1630,6 +1635,7 @@ nopage:
    > > show_mem();
    > > }
    > > got_pg:
    > > + trace_page_alloc(page, order);
    > > return page;
    > > }
    > >
    > > Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/trace/page.h
    > > ===================================================================
    > > --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
    > > +++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/trace/page.h 2008-07-15 14:04:38.000000000 -0400
    >
    > This name seems inconsitent with your other choices.
    >
    > include/traec/page_alloc.h comes to mind
    >

    Yes, good idea, will fix.

    Mathieu

    > > @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
    > > +#ifndef _TRACE_PAGE_H
    > > +#define _TRACE_PAGE_H
    > > +
    > > +#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
    > > +
    > > +/*
    > > + * mm_page_alloc : page can be NULL.
    > > + */
    > > +DEFINE_TRACE(page_alloc,
    > > + TPPROTO(struct page *page, unsigned int order),
    > > + TPARGS(page, order));
    > > +DEFINE_TRACE(page_free,
    > > + TPPROTO(struct page *page, unsigned int order),
    > > + TPARGS(page, order));
    > > +
    > > +#endif
    > >
    >

    --
    Mathieu Desnoyers
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