Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add a new field to struct shrinker

Tony Jones
2016-07-23T01:27:16Z

On 07/20/2016 07:54 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:

>> Michal, just to make sure I understand you correctly, do you mean that we
>> could infer the names of the shrinkers by looking at the names of their callbacks?
>
> Yes, %ps can then be used for the name of the shrinker structure
> (assuming it is available).

This is fine for emitting via the ftrace /sys interface, but in order to have the data [name] get
marshalled thru to perf (for example) you need to add it to the TP_fast_assign entry.

tony