linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] mm tracepoints update

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Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:00:30 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, riel@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] mm tracepoints update

> 
> I've cleaned up the mm tracepoints to track page allocation and
> freeing, various types of pagefaults and unmaps, and critical page
> reclamation routines.  This is useful for debugging memory allocation
> issues and system performance problems under heavy memory loads.

In past thread, Andrew pointed out bare page tracer isn't useful.
Can you make good consumer?


> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> # tracer: mm
> #
> #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
> #              | |       |          |         |
>          pdflush-624   [004]   184.293169: wb_kupdate:
> mm_pdflush_kupdate count=3e48
>          pdflush-624   [004]   184.293439: get_page_from_freelist:
> mm_page_allocation pfn=447c27 zone_free=1940910
>         events/6-33    [006]   184.962879: free_hot_cold_page:
> mm_page_free pfn=44bba9
>       irqbalance-8313  [001]   188.042951: unmap_vmas:
> mm_anon_userfree mm=ffff88044a7300c0 address=7f9a2eb70000 pfn=24c29a
>              cat-9122  [005]   191.141173: filemap_fault:
> mm_filemap_fault primary fault: mm=ffff88024c9d8f40 address=3cea2dd000
> pfn=44d68e
>              cat-9122  [001]   191.143036: handle_mm_fault:
> mm_anon_fault mm=ffff88024c8beb40 address=7fffbde99f94 pfn=24ce22
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Signed-off-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> 
> 
> The patch applies to ingo's latest tip tree:



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