Re: [patch] tracing/mm: add page frame snapshot trace

[Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 06:22:54PM +0800, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > > How about changing it from 'trigger' to 'dump_range':
> > 
> > That's a better name!
> > 
> > >    echo "*" > /debug/tracing/objects/mm/pages/dump_range
> > > 
> > > being a shortcut for 'dump all'?
> > 
> > No I'm not complaining about -1. That's even better than "*",
> > because the latter can easily be expanded by shell ;)
> > 
> > > And:
> > > 
> > >    echo "1000 2000" > /debug/tracing/objects/mm/pages/dump_range
> > > 
> > > ?
> > 
> > Now it's much more intuitive!
> > 
> > > The '1000' is the offset where the dumping starts, and 2000 is the 
> > > size of the dump.
> > 
> > Ah the second parameter 2000 can easily be taken as "end"..
> 
> Ok ... i've changed the name to dump_range and added your fix for 
> mapcount as well. I pushed it all out to -tip.

Thanks.

> Would you be interested in having a look at that and tweaking the 
> dump_range API to any variant of your liking, and sending a patch 
> for that? Both "<start> <end>" and "<start> <size>" (or any other 
> variant) would be fine IMHO.

Sure. I can even volunteer the process/file page walk works :)

> The lseek hack is nice (and we can keep that) but an explicit range 
> API would be nice, we try to keep all of ftrace scriptable.

OK.

Thanks,
Fengguang

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