Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 02:35:52PM +0000, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> trace_ipi_raise() is unsuitable for generically tracing IPI sources due to
> its "reason" argument being an uninformative string (on arm64 all you get
> is "Function call interrupts" for SMP calls).
> 
> Add a variant of it that exports a target cpumask, a callsite and a callback.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/trace/events/ipi.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/trace/events/ipi.h b/include/trace/events/ipi.h
> index 0be71dad6ec03..b1125dc27682c 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/ipi.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/ipi.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,28 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ipi_raise,
>  	TP_printk("target_mask=%s (%s)", __get_bitmask(target_cpus), __entry->reason)
>  );
>  
> +TRACE_EVENT(ipi_send_cpumask,
> +
> +	TP_PROTO(const struct cpumask *cpumask, unsigned long callsite, void *callback),
> +
> +	TP_ARGS(cpumask, callsite, callback),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__cpumask(cpumask)
> +		__field(void *, callsite)
> +		__field(void *, callback)
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_fast_assign(
> +		__assign_cpumask(cpumask, cpumask_bits(cpumask));
> +		__entry->callsite = (void *)callsite;
> +		__entry->callback = callback;
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_printk("cpumask=%s callsite=%pS callback=%pS",
> +		  __get_cpumask(cpumask), __entry->callsite, __entry->callback)
> +);

Would it make sense to add a variant like: ipi_send_cpu() that records a
single cpu instead of a cpumask. A lot of sites seems to do:
cpumask_of(cpu) for that first argument, and it seems to me it is quite
daft to have to memcpy a full multi-word cpumask in those cases.

Remember, nr_possible_cpus > 64 is quite common these days.