Re: [PATCH v3] tracing: add 'accounted' entry into output of allocation tracepoints

From: Vasily Averin
Date: Sat May 21 2022 - 14:32:30 EST


On 5/19/22 19:32, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2022 19:29:36 +0300
> Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Frankly speaking I vote for performance with both hands.
>> However I'm still would like to avoid new sparse warnings.
>> Christoph Hellwig just recently taught me, "never add '__force' before
>> thinking hard about them", but in this case I would need to use it three times.
>>
>> I found that bitwise typecasts can be avoided by using translation unions.
>>
>> What do you think about following trick?
>
> It's really up to you memory management folks. Although I may need to
> update libtraceevent to handle the union case. That may be a bit tricky.

In this case, I would like to keep sub-optimal v3 patch version.
If necessary, we can improve the performance later, and right now
I will send v4 with minor patch description changes and ask
Andrew Morton to include it in the mm tree.

Thank you,
Vasily Averin