Using these tracepoints it is possible to model LRU activity and the
average residency of pages of different types. This can be used to
debug problems related to premature reclaim of pages of particular
types.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/pagemap.h | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/swap.c | 5 +++
2 files changed, 94 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 include/trace/events/pagemap.h
diff --git a/include/trace/events/pagemap.h b/include/trace/events/pagemap.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c9fabd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/trace/events/pagemap.h
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
+#define TRACE_SYSTEM pagemap
+
+#if !defined(_TRACE_PAGEMAP_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
+#define _TRACE_PAGEMAP_H
+
+#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+
+#define PAGEMAP_MAPPED 0x0001u
+#define PAGEMAP_ANONYMOUS 0x0002u
+#define PAGEMAP_FILE 0x0004u
+#define PAGEMAP_SWAPCACHE 0x0008u
+#define PAGEMAP_SWAPBACKED 0x0010u
+#define PAGEMAP_MAPPEDDISK 0x0020u
+#define PAGEMAP_BUFFERS 0x0040u
+
+#define trace_pagemap_flags(page) ( \
+ (PageAnon(page) ? PAGEMAP_ANONYMOUS : PAGEMAP_FILE) | \
+ (page_mapped(page) ? PAGEMAP_MAPPED : 0) | \
+ (PageSwapCache(page) ? PAGEMAP_SWAPCACHE : 0) | \
+ (PageSwapBacked(page) ? PAGEMAP_SWAPBACKED : 0) | \
+ (PageMappedToDisk(page) ? PAGEMAP_MAPPEDDISK : 0) | \
+ (page_has_private(page) ? PAGEMAP_BUFFERS : 0) \
+ )
+
+TRACE_EVENT(mm_lru_insertion,
+
+ TP_PROTO(
+ struct page *page,
+ unsigned long pfn,
+ int lru,
+ unsigned long flags
+ ),
+
+ TP_ARGS(page, pfn, lru, flags),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field(struct page *, page )
+ __field(unsigned long, pfn )
+ __field(int, lru )
+ __field(unsigned long, flags )
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->page = page;
+ __entry->pfn = pfn;
+ __entry->lru = lru;
+ __entry->flags = flags;
+ ),
+
+ /* Flag format is based on page-types.c formatting for pagemap */
+ TP_printk("page=%p pfn=%lu lru=%d flags=%s%s%s%s%s%s",
+ __entry->page,
+ __entry->pfn,
+ __entry->lru,
+ __entry->flags & PAGEMAP_MAPPED ? "M" : " ",
+ __entry->flags & PAGEMAP_ANONYMOUS ? "a" : "f",
+ __entry->flags & PAGEMAP_SWAPCACHE ? "s" : " ",
+ __entry->flags & PAGEMAP_SWAPBACKED ? "b" : " ",
+ __entry->flags & PAGEMAP_MAPPEDDISK ? "d" : " ",
+ __entry->flags & PAGEMAP_BUFFERS ? "B" : " ")
+);
+
+TRACE_EVENT(mm_lru_activate,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn),
+
+ TP_ARGS(page, pfn),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field(struct page *, page )
+ __field(unsigned long, pfn )
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->page = page;
+ __entry->pfn = pfn;
+ ),
+
+ /* Flag format is based on page-types.c formatting for pagemap */
+ TP_printk("page=%p pfn=%lu", __entry->page, __entry->pfn)
+
+);
+
+#endif /* _TRACE_PAGEMAP_H */
+
+/* This part must be outside protection */
+#include <trace/define_trace.h>
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index dfd7d71..53c9ceb 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
#include "internal.h"
+#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
+#include <trace/events/pagemap.h>
+
/* How many pages do we try to swap or page in/out together? */
int page_cluster;
@@ -384,6 +387,7 @@ static void __activate_page(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
SetPageActive(page);
lru += LRU_ACTIVE;
add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
+ trace_mm_lru_activate(page, page_to_pfn(page));
__count_vm_event(PGACTIVATE);
update_page_reclaim_stat(lruvec, file, 1);
@@ -808,6 +812,7 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
SetPageActive(page);
add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
update_page_reclaim_stat(lruvec, file, active);
+ trace_mm_lru_insertion(page, page_to_pfn(page), lru, trace_pagemap_flags(page));
}
/*
--
1.8.1.4
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