This patch adds trace events for the allocation and freeing of pages,
including the freeing of pagevecs. Using the events, it will be known
what struct page and pfns are being allocated and freed and what the call
site was in many cases.
The page alloc tracepoints be used as an indicator as to whether the
workload was heavily dependant on the page allocator or not. You can make
a guess based on vmstat but you can't get a per-process breakdown.
Depending on the call path, the call_site for page allocation may be
__get_free_pages() instead of a useful callsite. Instead of passing down
a return address similar to slab debugging, the user should enable the
stacktrace and seg-addr options to get a proper stack trace.
The pagevec free tracepoint has a different usecase. It can be used to
get a idea of how many pages are being dumped off the LRU and whether it
is kswapd doing the work or a process doing direct reclaim.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (58 commits)
perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic
perf utils: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event
perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
tracing, x86, cpuidle: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer
perf utils: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper
perf timechart: Add "perf timechart record"
perf: Add the timechart tool
perf: Add a SVG helper library file
tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
perf: Add a sample_event type to the event_union
perf: Allow perf utilities to have "callback" options without arguments
perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data
perf: Add a timestamp to fork events
sched_clock: Make it NMI safe
perf_counter: Fix up swcounter throttling
x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow handling
perf sched: Add --input=file option to builtin-sched.c
perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag
perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH
perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk()
...
This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer,
so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be
tracked via "perf".
This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer;
its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (64 commits)
ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
ext4: replace MAX_DEFRAG_SIZE with EXT_MAX_BLOCK
ext4: Fix the alloc on close after a truncate hueristic
ext4: Add a tracepoint for ext4_alloc_da_blocks()
ext4: store EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE in i_state instead of i_flags
ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32
ext4: Fix different block exchange issue in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
ext4: Add null extent check to ext_get_path
ext4: Replace BUG_ON() with ext4_error() in move_extents.c
ext4: Replace get_ext_path macro with an inline funciton
ext4: Fix include/trace/events/ext4.h to work with Systemtap
ext4: Fix initalization of s_flex_groups
ext4: Always set dx_node's fake_dirent explicitly.
ext4: Fix async commit mode to be safe by using a barrier
ext4: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only
ext4: Clarify the locking details in mballoc
ext4: check for need init flag in ext4_mb_load_buddy
ext4: move ext4_mb_init_group() function earlier in the mballoc.c
ext4: Make non-journal fsync work properly
ext4: Assure that metadata blocks are written during fsync in no journal mode
...
Using relative pathnames in #include statements interacts badly with
SystemTap, since the fs/ext4/*.h header files are not packaged up as
part of a distribution kernel's header files. Since systemtap doesn't
use TP_fast_assign(), we can use a blind structure definition and then
make sure the needed header files are defined before the ext4 source
files #include the trace/events/ext4.h header file.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512478
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
KVM: correct error-handling code
KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
KVM: Add missing #include
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
netxen: update copyright
netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
netxen: fix file firmware leak
netxen: improve pci memory access
netxen: change firmware write size
tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
netxen: build fix for INET=n
cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
...
Fixed up trivial conflicts:
- arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h
converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic
header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.
- drivers/net/tun.c
fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.
Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
This allows more precise tracking of how the scheduler accounts
(and acts upon) a task having spent N nanoseconds of CPU time.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Booting 2.6.31 and executing
echo 1 >/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable
leads to
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<c032a583>] ftrace_raw_event_block_bio_bounce+0x4b/0xb9
Apparently,
bio = bio_map_user(q, NULL, uaddr, len, reading, gfp_mask);
is called in block/blk-map.c:58 where bio->bi_bdev in set to NULL and
still is NULL when an attempt is made to evaluate bio->bi_bdev->bd_dev
in include/trace/events/block.h:189.
The tracepoint should ensure bio->bi_bdev is not dereferenced, if NULL.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AAAC9B1.9060505@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (105 commits)
ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation
tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak
tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
...
Add tracepoint in msi/ioapic/pic set_irq() functions,
in IPI sending and in the point where IRQ is placed into
apic's IRR.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This allows use of the powerful ftrace infrastructure.
See Documentation/trace/ for usage information.
[avi, stephen: various build fixes]
[sheng: fix control register breakage]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Unlike on some other architectures ino_t is an unsigned int on s390.
So add an explicit cast to avoid lots of compile warnings:
In file included from include/trace/ftrace.h:285,
from include/trace/define_trace.h:61,
from include/trace/events/ext4.h:711,
from fs/ext4/super.c:50:
include/trace/events/ext4.h: In function 'ftrace_raw_output_ext4_free_inode':
include/trace/events/ext4.h:12: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add 3 schedstat tracepoints to help account for wait-time,
sleep-time and iowait-time.
They can also be used as a perf-counter source to profile tasks
on these clocks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ build fix for the !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS case ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a new tracepoint which shows the pages that will be written using
write_cache_pages() by ext4_da_writepages().
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Mel Gorman
Linus Torvalds
Arjan van de Ven
Ingo Molnar
Li Zefan
Theodore Ts'o
Jens Axboe
Carsten Emde
Gleb Natapov
Avi Kivity
Marcelo Tosatti
Peter Zijlstra
Xiao Guangrong