On Mon 11-07-16 10:12:51, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 08:37 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Sat 09-07-16 04:43:31, Janani Ravichandran wrote: > > > Struct shrinker does not have a field to uniquely identify the > > > shrinkers > > > it represents. It would be helpful to have a new field to hold > > > names of > > > shrinkers. This information would be useful while analyzing their > > > behavior using tracepoints. > > > > This will however increase the vmlinux size even when no tracing is > > enabled. Why cannot we simply print the name of the shrinker > > callbacks? > > What mechanism do you have in mind for obtaining the name, > Michal? Not sure whether tracing infrastructure allows printk like %ps. If not then it doesn't sound too hard to add. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>