linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] second round of tracepoints for DAX

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:51:10 -0700
From:   Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] second round of tracepoints for DAX

This second round of DAX tracepoint patches adds tracing to the PTE fault
path (dax_iomap_pte_fault(), dax_pfn_mkwrite(), dax_load_hole(),
dax_insert_mapping()) and to the writeback path
(dax_writeback_mapping_range(), dax_writeback_one()).

The purpose of this tracing is to give us a high level view of what DAX is
doing, whether faults are being serviced by PMDs or PTEs, and by real
storage or by zero pages covering holes.

I do have some patches nearly ready which also add tracing to
grab_mapping_entry() and dax_insert_mapping_entry().  These are more
targeted at logging how we are interacting with the radix tree, how we use
empty entries for locking, whether we "downgrade" huge zero pages to
4k PTE sized allocations, etc.  In the end it seemed to me that this might
be too detailed to have as constantly present tracepoints, but if anyone
sees value in having tracepoints like this in the DAX code permanently
(Jan?), please let me know and I'll add those last two patches.

All these tracepoints were done to be consistent with the style of the XFS
tracepoints and with the existing DAX PMD tracepoints.

This series applies cleanly to the current mmots/master:

commit 35aa45ffe8d9 ("pci: test for unexpectedly disabled bridges")

and I'm hoping that it'll end up going to Linus through akpm's -mm tree.

Thanks,
- Ross

Ross Zwisler (6):
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_iomap_pte_fault()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_pfn_mkwrite()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_load_hole()
  dax: add tracepoints to dax_writeback_mapping_range()
  dax: add tracepoint to dax_writeback_one()
  dax: add tracepoint to dax_insert_mapping()

 fs/dax.c                      |  44 ++++++++++----
 include/trace/events/fs_dax.h | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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