linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add slowpath enter/exit trace events

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Date:   Thu, 23 Nov 2017 22:43:03 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     peter.enderborg@...y.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Harry Wentland <Harry.Wentland@....com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Tony Cheng <Tony.Cheng@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add slowpath enter/exit trace events

On 2017/11/23 22:36, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Thu 23-11-17 11:43:36, peter.enderborg@...y.com wrote:
>>> From: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@...y.com>
>>>
>>> The warning of slow allocation has been removed, this is
>>> a other way to fetch that information. But you need
>>> to enable the trace. The exit function also returns
>>> information about the number of retries, how long
>>> it was stalled and failure reason if that happened.
>>
>> I think this is just too excessive. We already have a tracepoint for the
>> allocation exit. All we need is an entry to have a base to compare with.
>> Another usecase would be to measure allocation latency. Information you
>> are adding can be (partially) covered by existing tracepoints.
>>
> 
> You can gather that by simply adding a probe to __alloc_pages_slowpath
> (like what perf probe does) and matching the trigger with the existing
> mm_page_alloc points. This is a bit approximate because you would need
> to filter mm_page_alloc hits that do not have a corresponding hit with
> __alloc_pages_slowpath but that is easy.
> 
> With that probe, it's trivial to use systemtap to track the latencies between
> those points on a per-processes basis and then only do a dump_stack from
> systemtap for the ones that are above a particular threshold. This can all
> be done without introducing state-tracking code into the page allocator
> that is active regardless of whether the tracepoint is in use. It also
> has the benefit of working with many older kernels.

Please see my attempt at
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510833448-19918-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp .
Printing just current thread is not sufficient for me.