linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Improve visibility of writeback

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:20:12 -0700
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	willy@...radead.org, bfoster@...hat.com, jack@...e.cz,
	dsterba@...e.com, mjguzik@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
	peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Improve visibility of writeback

Hello,

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 07:02:16PM +0800, Kemeng Shi wrote:
> /* all writeback info of bdi is successfully collected */
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/252:16/stats:
> BdiWriteback:              448 kB
..
> 
> /* per wb writeback info is collected */
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/bdi/252:16/wb_stats:
> cat wb_stats
> WbCgIno:                    1
..
> 
> /* monitor writeback info */
> # ./wb_monitor.py 252:16 -c
>                   writeback  reclaimable   dirtied   written    avg_bw
> 252:16_1                  0            0         0         0    102400
> 252:16_4284             672       820064   9230368   8410304    685612
> 252:16_4325             896       819840  10491264   9671648    652348
> 252:16                 1568      1639904  19721632  18081952   1440360
> 
> 
>                   writeback  reclaimable   dirtied   written    avg_bw
> 252:16_1                  0            0         0         0    102400
> 252:16_4284             672       820064   9230368   8410304    685612
> 252:16_4325             896       819840  10491264   9671648    652348
> 252:16                 1568      1639904  19721632  18081952   1440360
> ...

Ah you have the example outputs here. It'd be nice to have these in the
commit messages too.

I'm not sure about the last patch but patchset looks good to me otherwise. I
don't feel particularly enthusiastic about adding more debugfs files
especially given that some distros disable debugfs completely, but no harm
in adding them either.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun