Re: [PATCH v5] tracing: add 'accounted' entry into output of allocation tracepoints

From: Muchun Song
Date: Mon May 30 2022 - 04:25:53 EST


On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 10:47:26AM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> Slab caches marked with SLAB_ACCOUNT force accounting for every
> allocation from this cache even if __GFP_ACCOUNT flag is not passed.
> Unfortunately, at the moment this flag is not visible in ftrace output,
> and this makes it difficult to analyze the accounted allocations.
>
> This patch adds boolean "accounted" entry into trace output,
> and set it to 'true' for calls used __GFP_ACCOUNT flag and
> for allocations from caches marked with SLAB_ACCOUNT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.