Hi Ingo, > Note that there's also these older experimental commits in tip:tracing/mm > that introduce the notion of 'object collections' and adds the ability to > trace them: > > 3383e37: tracing, page-allocator: Add a postprocessing script for page-allocator-related ftrace events > c33b359: tracing, page-allocator: Add trace event for page traffic related to the buddy lists > 0d524fb: tracing, mm: Add trace events for anti-fragmentation falling back to other migratetypes > b9a2817: tracing, page-allocator: Add trace events for page allocation and page freeing > 08b6cb8: perf_counter tools: Provide default bfd_demangle() function in case it's not around > eb46710: tracing/mm: rename 'trigger' file to 'dump_range' > 1487a7a: tracing/mm: fix mapcount trace record field > dcac8cd: tracing/mm: add page frame snapshot trace > > this concept, if refreshed a bit and extended to the page cache, would allow > the recording/snapshotting of the MM state of all currently present pages in > the page-cache - a possibly nice addition to the dynamic technique you apply > in your patches. > > there's similar "object collections" work underway for 'perf lock' btw., by > Hitoshi Mitake and Frederic. > > So there's lots of common ground and lots of interest. Here is a scratch patch to exercise the "object collections" idea :) Interestingly, the pagecache walk is pretty fast, while copying out the trace data takes more time: # time (echo / > walk-fs) (; echo / > walk-fs; ) 0.01s user 0.11s system 82% cpu 0.145 total # time wc /debug/tracing/trace 4570 45893 551282 /debug/tracing/trace wc /debug/tracing/trace 0.75s user 0.55s system 88% cpu 1.470 total # time (cat /debug/tracing/trace > /dev/shm/t) (; cat /debug/tracing/trace > /dev/shm/t; ) 0.04s user 0.49s system 95% cpu 0.548 total # time (dd if=/debug/tracing/trace of=/dev/shm/t bs=1M) 0+138 records in 0+138 records out 551282 bytes (551 kB) copied, 0.380454 s, 1.4 MB/s (; dd if=/debug/tracing/trace of=/dev/shm/t bs=1M; ) 0.09s user 0.48s system 96% cpu 0.600 total The patch is based on tip/tracing/mm. Thanks, Fengguang --- tracing: pagecache object collections This dumps - all cached files of a mounted fs (the inode-cache) - all cached pages of a cached file (the page-cache) Usage and Sample output: # echo / > /debug/tracing/objects/mm/pages/walk-fs # head /debug/tracing/trace # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | zsh-3078 [000] 526.272587: dump_inode: ino=102223 size=169291 cached=172032 age=9 dirty=6 dev=0:15 file=<TODO> zsh-3078 [000] 526.274260: dump_pagecache_range: index=0 len=41 flags=10000000000002c count=1 mapcount=0 zsh-3078 [000] 526.274340: dump_pagecache_range: index=41 len=1 flags=10000000000006c count=1 mapcount=0 zsh-3078 [000] 526.274401: dump_inode: ino=8966 size=442 cached=4096 age=49 dirty=0 dev=0:15 file=<TODO> zsh-3078 [000] 526.274425: dump_pagecache_range: index=0 len=1 flags=10000000000002c count=1 mapcount=0 zsh-3078 [000] 526.274440: dump_inode: ino=8964 size=4096 cached=0 age=49 dirty=0 dev=0:15 file=<TODO> Here "age" is either age from inode create time, or from last dirty time. TODO: correctness - show file path name XXX: can trace_seq_path() be called directly inside TRACE_EVENT()? - reliably prevent ring buffer overflow, by replacing cond_resched() with some wait function (eg. wait until 2+ pages are free in ring buffer) - use stable_page_flags() in recent kernel output style - use plain tracing output format (no fancy TASK-PID/.../FUNCTION fields) - clear ring buffer before dumping the objects? - output format: key=value pairs ==> header + tabbed values? - add filtering options if necessary CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> CC: Chris Frost <frost@xxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 2 include/trace/events/mm.h | 67 ++++++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace_mm.c | 165 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-mm.orig/include/trace/events/mm.h 2010-02-08 23:19:09.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-mm/include/trace/events/mm.h 2010-02-08 23:19:16.000000000 +0800 @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ #define _TRACE_MM_H #include <linux/tracepoint.h> +#include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/mm.h> #undef TRACE_SYSTEM @@ -42,6 +43,72 @@ TRACE_EVENT(dump_pages, __entry->mapcount, __entry->index) ); +TRACE_EVENT(dump_pagecache_range, + + TP_PROTO(struct page *page, unsigned long len), + + TP_ARGS(page, len), + + TP_STRUCT__entry( + __field( unsigned long, index ) + __field( unsigned long, len ) + __field( unsigned long, flags ) + __field( unsigned int, count ) + __field( unsigned int, mapcount ) + ), + + TP_fast_assign( + __entry->index = page->index; + __entry->len = len; + __entry->flags = page->flags; + __entry->count = atomic_read(&page->_count); + __entry->mapcount = page_mapcount(page); + ), + + TP_printk("index=%lu len=%lu flags=%lx count=%u mapcount=%u", + __entry->index, + __entry->len, + __entry->flags, + __entry->count, + __entry->mapcount) +); + +TRACE_EVENT(dump_inode, + + TP_PROTO(struct inode *inode), + + TP_ARGS(inode), + + TP_STRUCT__entry( + __field( unsigned long, ino ) + __field( loff_t, size ) + __field( unsigned long, nrpages ) + __field( unsigned long, age ) + __field( unsigned long, state ) + __field( dev_t, dev ) + ), + + TP_fast_assign( + __entry->ino = inode->i_ino; + __entry->size = i_size_read(inode); + __entry->nrpages = inode->i_mapping->nrpages; + __entry->age = jiffies - inode->dirtied_when; + __entry->state = inode->i_state; + __entry->dev = inode->i_sb->s_dev; + ), + + TP_printk("ino=%lu size=%llu cached=%lu age=%lu dirty=%lu " + "dev=%u:%u file=<TODO>", + __entry->ino, + __entry->size, + __entry->nrpages << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, + __entry->age / HZ, + __entry->state & I_DIRTY, + MAJOR(__entry->dev), + MINOR(__entry->dev)) +); + + #endif /* _TRACE_MM_H */ /* This part must be outside protection */ --- linux-mm.orig/kernel/trace/trace_mm.c 2010-02-08 23:19:09.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-mm/kernel/trace/trace_mm.c 2010-02-08 23:19:16.000000000 +0800 @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ #include <linux/bootmem.h> #include <linux/debugfs.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> +#include <linux/pagevec.h> +#include <linux/writeback.h> +#include <linux/file.h> #include "trace_output.h" @@ -95,6 +98,162 @@ static const struct file_operations trac .write = trace_mm_dump_range_write, }; +static unsigned long page_flags(struct page* page) +{ + return page->flags & ((1 << NR_PAGEFLAGS) - 1); +} + +static int pages_similiar(struct page* page0, struct page* page) +{ + if (page_count(page0) != page_count(page)) + return 0; + + if (page_mapcount(page0) != page_mapcount(page)) + return 0; + + if (page_flags(page0) != page_flags(page)) + return 0; + + return 1; +} + +#define BATCH_LINES 100 +static void dump_pagecache(struct address_space *mapping) +{ + int i; + int lines = 0; + pgoff_t len = 0; + struct pagevec pvec; + struct page *page; + struct page *page0 = NULL; + unsigned long start = 0; + + for (;;) { + pagevec_init(&pvec, 0); + pvec.nr = radix_tree_gang_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, + (void **)pvec.pages, start + len, PAGEVEC_SIZE); + + if (pvec.nr == 0) { + if (len) + trace_dump_pagecache_range(page0, len); + break; + } + + if (!page0) + page0 = pvec.pages[0]; + + for (i = 0; i < pvec.nr; i++) { + page = pvec.pages[i]; + + if (page->index == start + len && + pages_similiar(page0, page)) + len++; + else { + trace_dump_pagecache_range(page0, len); + page0 = page; + start = page->index; + len = 1; + if (++lines > BATCH_LINES) { + lines = 0; + cond_resched(); + } + } + } + } +} + +static void dump_fs_pagecache(struct super_block *sb) +{ + struct inode *inode; + struct inode *prev_inode = NULL; + + down_read(&sb->s_umount); + if (!sb->s_root) + goto out; + spin_lock(&inode_lock); + list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) { + if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_CLEAR|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) + continue; + __iget(inode); + spin_unlock(&inode_lock); + trace_dump_inode(inode); + if (inode->i_mapping->nrpages) + dump_pagecache(inode->i_mapping); + iput(prev_inode); + prev_inode = inode; + cond_resched(); + spin_lock(&inode_lock); + } + spin_unlock(&inode_lock); + iput(prev_inode); +out: + up_read(&sb->s_umount); +} + +static ssize_t +trace_pagecache_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t count, + loff_t *ppos) +{ + struct file *file = NULL; + char *name; + int err = 0; + + if (count > PATH_MAX + 1) + return -ENAMETOOLONG; + + name = kmalloc(count+1, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!name) + return -ENOMEM; + + if (copy_from_user(name, ubuf, count)) { + err = -EFAULT; + goto out; + } + + /* strip the newline added by `echo` */ + if (count) + name[count-1] = '\0'; + + file = filp_open(name, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE, 0); + if (IS_ERR(file)) { + err = PTR_ERR(file); + file = NULL; + goto out; + } + + if (tracing_update_buffers() < 0) { + err = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } + if (trace_set_clr_event("mm", "dump_pagecache_range", 1)) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } + if (trace_set_clr_event("mm", "dump_inode", 1)) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } + + if (filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_private) { + dump_fs_pagecache(file->f_path.dentry->d_sb); + } else { + dump_pagecache(file->f_mapping); + } + +out: + if (file) + fput(file); + kfree(name); + + return err ? err : count; +} + +static const struct file_operations trace_pagecache_fops = { + .open = tracing_open_generic, + .read = trace_mm_dump_range_read, + .write = trace_pagecache_write, +}; + /* move this into trace_objects.c when that file is created */ static struct dentry *trace_objects_dir(void) { @@ -167,6 +326,12 @@ static __init int trace_objects_mm_init( trace_create_file("dump_range", 0600, d_pages, NULL, &trace_mm_fops); + trace_create_file("walk-file", 0600, d_pages, NULL, + &trace_pagecache_fops); + + trace_create_file("walk-fs", 0600, d_pages, (void *)1, + &trace_pagecache_fops); + return 0; } fs_initcall(trace_objects_mm_init); --- linux-mm.orig/fs/inode.c 2010-02-08 23:19:12.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-mm/fs/inode.c 2010-02-08 23:19:22.000000000 +0800 @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ struct inode *inode_init_always(struct s inode->i_bdev = NULL; inode->i_cdev = NULL; inode->i_rdev = 0; - inode->dirtied_when = 0; + inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; if (security_inode_alloc(inode)) goto out_free_inode; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . 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