Re: [patch 10/17] LTTng instrumentation - swap

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 04:39:44 EST


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 18:26 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> plain text document attachment (lttng-instrumentation-swap.patch)
> Instrumentation of waits caused by swap activity. Also instrumentation
> swapon/swapoff events to keep track of active swap partitions.
>
> Those tracepoints are used by LTTng.
>
> About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to markers),
> even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by Hideo Aoki on ia64
> show no regression. His test case was using hackbench on a kernel where
> scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code scheduler code) was added.
> See the "Tracepoints" patch header for performance result detail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: 'Ingo Molnar' <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CC: 'Hideo AOKI' <haoki@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: 'Steven Rostedt' <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/trace/swap.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/memory.c | 2 ++
> mm/page_io.c | 2 ++
> mm/swapfile.c | 4 ++++
> 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6-lttng/mm/memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/mm/memory.c 2008-07-15 13:54:46.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6-lttng/mm/memory.c 2008-07-15 14:02:54.000000000 -0400
> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
> #include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/writeback.h>
> #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
> +#include <trace/swap.h>
>
> #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> @@ -2213,6 +2214,7 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct
> /* Had to read the page from swap area: Major fault */
> ret = VM_FAULT_MAJOR;
> count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT);
> + trace_swap_in(page, entry);
> }
>
> if (mem_cgroup_charge(page, mm, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> Index: linux-2.6-lttng/mm/page_io.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/mm/page_io.c 2008-07-15 13:54:46.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6-lttng/mm/page_io.c 2008-07-15 14:02:54.000000000 -0400
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> #include <linux/bio.h>
> #include <linux/swapops.h>
> #include <linux/writeback.h>
> +#include <trace/swap.h>
> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>
> static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gfp_flags, pgoff_t index,
> @@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page, st
> rw |= (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC);
> count_vm_event(PSWPOUT);
> set_page_writeback(page);
> + trace_swap_out(page);
> unlock_page(page);
> submit_bio(rw, bio);
> out:
> Index: linux-2.6-lttng/mm/swapfile.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/mm/swapfile.c 2008-07-15 13:54:46.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6-lttng/mm/swapfile.c 2008-07-15 14:02:54.000000000 -0400
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
> #include <linux/swapops.h>
> +#include <trace/swap.h>
>
> DEFINE_SPINLOCK(swap_lock);
> unsigned int nr_swapfiles;
> @@ -1310,6 +1311,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_swapoff(const char _
> swap_map = p->swap_map;
> p->swap_map = NULL;
> p->flags = 0;
> + trace_swap_file_close(swap_file);
> spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
> mutex_unlock(&swapon_mutex);
> vfree(swap_map);
> @@ -1695,6 +1697,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_swapon(const char __
> } else {
> swap_info[prev].next = p - swap_info;
> }
> + trace_swap_file_open(swap_file, name);
> spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
> mutex_unlock(&swapon_mutex);
> error = 0;
> @@ -1796,6 +1799,7 @@ get_swap_info_struct(unsigned type)
> {
> return &swap_info[type];
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_swap_info_struct);

I'm not too happy with this export.

>
> /*
> * swap_lock prevents swap_map being freed. Don't grab an extra
> Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/trace/swap.h
> ===================================================================
> --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/trace/swap.h 2008-07-15 14:02:54.000000000 -0400
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +#ifndef _TRACE_SWAP_H
> +#define _TRACE_SWAP_H
> +
> +#include <linux/swap.h>
> +#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
> +
> +DEFINE_TRACE(swap_in,
> + TPPROTO(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry),
> + TPARGS(page, entry));
> +DEFINE_TRACE(swap_out,
> + TPPROTO(struct page *page),
> + TPARGS(page));
> +DEFINE_TRACE(swap_file_open,
> + TPPROTO(struct file *file, char *filename),
> + TPARGS(file, filename));
> +DEFINE_TRACE(swap_file_close,
> + TPPROTO(struct file *file),
> + TPARGS(file));
> +
> +#endif
>

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