linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] metricfs metric file system and examples

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Message-ID: <5de55a11-c08b-0a55-a678-4bf0d2266a83@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 7 Aug 2020 10:10:43 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Jonathan Adams <jwadams@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] metricfs metric file system and examples

On 8/5/20 5:14 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> To try to restart the discussion of kernel statistics started by the
> statsfs patchsets (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/26/332), I wanted
> to share the following set of patches which are Google's 'metricfs'
> implementation and some example uses.  Google has been using metricfs
> internally since 2012 as a way to export various statistics to our
> telemetry systems (similar to OpenTelemetry), and we have over 200
> statistics exported on a typical machine.
> 

Hi,

AFAIK all Linux filesystems (including pseudo/synthetic ones)
live under fs/, not in kernel/.

Therefore I think that this patch series needs more exposure,
i.e., Cc: it to linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org and netdev@...r.kernel.org.
oh, and to gregkh.


> Jonathan Adams (5):
>   core/metricfs: add support for percpu metricfs files
>   core/metricfs: metric for kernel warnings
>   core/metricfs: expose softirq information through metricfs
>   core/metricfs: expose scheduler stat information through metricfs
>   core/metricfs: expose x86-specific irq information through metricfs
> 
> Justin TerAvest (1):
>   core/metricfs: Create metricfs, standardized files under debugfs.
> 
> Laurent Chavey (1):
>   net-metricfs: Export /proc/net/dev via metricfs.
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/irq.c      |  80 ++++
>  fs/proc/stat.c             |  57 +++
>  include/linux/metricfs.h   | 131 +++++++
>  kernel/Makefile            |   2 +
>  kernel/metricfs.c          | 775 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/metricfs_examples.c | 151 ++++++++
>  kernel/panic.c             | 131 +++++++
>  kernel/softirq.c           |  45 +++
>  lib/Kconfig.debug          |  18 +
>  net/core/Makefile          |   1 +
>  net/core/net_metricfs.c    | 194 ++++++++++
>  11 files changed, 1585 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/metricfs.h
>  create mode 100644 kernel/metricfs.c
>  create mode 100644 kernel/metricfs_examples.c
>  create mode 100644 net/core/net_metricfs.c


thanks.
-- 
~Randy