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* [RFC] Add gup trace points support
@ 2015-12-01 23:06 Yang Shi
  2015-12-01 23:06 ` [PATCH 1/7] trace/events: Add gup trace events Yang Shi
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From: Yang Shi @ 2015-12-01 23:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, rostedt, mingo; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mm, linaro-kernel, yang.shi


Some background about why I think this might be useful.

When I was profiling some hugetlb related program, I got page-faults event
doubled when hugetlb is enabled. When I looked into the code, I found page-faults
come from two places, do_page_fault and gup. So, I tried to figure out which
play a role (or both) in my use case. But I can't find existing finer tracing
event for sub page-faults in current mainline kernel.

So, I added the gup trace points support to have finer tracing events for
page-faults. The below events are added:

__get_user_pages
__get_user_pages_fast
fixup_user_fault

Both __get_user_pages and fixup_user_fault call handle_mm_fault.

Just added trace points to raw version __get_user_pages since all variants
will call it finally to do real work.

Although __get_user_pages_fast doesn't call handle_mm_fault, it might be useful
to have it to distinguish between slow and fast version.


Yang Shi (7):
      trace/events: Add gup trace events
      mm/gup: add gup trace points
      x86: mm/gup: add gup trace points
      mips: mm/gup: add gup trace points
      s390: mm/gup: add gup trace points
      sh: mm/gup: add gup trace points
      sparc64: mm/gup: add gup trace points

 arch/mips/mm/gup.c         |  7 +++++++
 arch/s390/mm/gup.c         |  7 +++++++
 arch/sh/mm/gup.c           |  8 ++++++++
 arch/sparc/mm/gup.c        |  8 ++++++++
 arch/x86/mm/gup.c          |  7 +++++++
 include/trace/events/gup.h | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/gup.c                   |  8 ++++++++
 7 files changed, 122 insertions(+)

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2015-12-01 23:06 [RFC] Add gup trace points support Yang Shi
2015-12-01 23:06 ` [PATCH 1/7] trace/events: Add gup trace events Yang Shi
2015-12-01 23:56   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-12-02  0:07     ` Shi, Yang
2015-12-02  0:18       ` Steven Rostedt
2015-12-02  0:39         ` Shi, Yang
2015-12-01 23:06 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm/gup: add gup trace points Yang Shi
2015-12-01 23:06 ` [PATCH 3/7] x86: " Yang Shi
2015-12-01 23:06 ` [PATCH 4/7] mips: " Yang Shi
2015-12-02 13:23   ` Ralf Baechle
2015-12-01 23:06 ` [PATCH 5/7] s390: " Yang Shi
2015-12-01 23:06 ` [PATCH 6/7] sh: " Yang Shi
2015-12-01 23:06 ` [PATCH 7/7] sparc64: " Yang Shi

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