Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: add ACCOUNT flag for allocations from marked slab caches

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On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 09:34:13AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 08:59:31PM +0900, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> > On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 12:44:14PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> > > dSlab 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 the __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for allocations from slab caches
> > > marked with SLAB_ACCOUNT to the ftrace output
> > > ---
> > > v2:
> > >  1) handle kmem_cache_alloc_node() too, thanks to Shakeel
> > >  2) rework kmem_cache_alloc* tracepoints to use cachep instead
> > >     of current cachep->*size parameters. Now kmalloc[_node] and
> > >     kmem_cache_alloc[_node] tracepoints do not use common template
> > > 
> > > NB: kmem_cache_alloc_node tracepoint in SLOB cannot be switched to cachep,
> > >     therefore it was replaced by kmalloc_node tracepoint.
> > > ---
> > > VvS: is this acceptable? Maybe I should split this patch?
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  include/trace/events/kmem.h | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > >  mm/slab.c                   |  7 +---
> > >  mm/slab_common.c            |  7 ++--
> > >  mm/slob.c                   | 10 ++---
> > >  mm/slub.c                   |  6 +--
> > >  5 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/trace/events/kmem.h b/include/trace/events/kmem.h
> > > index 71c141804222..3b4f96e4a607 100644
> > > --- a/include/trace/events/kmem.h
> > > +++ b/include/trace/events/kmem.h
> > > @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
> > >  #include <linux/tracepoint.h>
> > >  #include <trace/events/mmflags.h>
> > >  
> > > -DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(kmem_alloc,
> > > +TRACE_EVENT(kmalloc,
> > >  
> > >  	TP_PROTO(unsigned long call_site,
> > >  		 const void *ptr,
> > > @@ -43,23 +43,41 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(kmem_alloc,
> > >  		show_gfp_flags(__entry->gfp_flags))
> > >  );
> > >  
> > > -DEFINE_EVENT(kmem_alloc, kmalloc,
> > > +TRACE_EVENT(kmem_cache_alloc,
> > >  
> > > -	TP_PROTO(unsigned long call_site, const void *ptr,
> > > -		 size_t bytes_req, size_t bytes_alloc, gfp_t gfp_flags),
> > > +	TP_PROTO(unsigned long call_site,
> > > +		 const void *ptr,
> > > +		 struct kmem_cache *s,
> > > +		 gfp_t gfp_flags),
> > >  
> > > -	TP_ARGS(call_site, ptr, bytes_req, bytes_alloc, gfp_flags)
> > > -);
> > > +	TP_ARGS(call_site, ptr, s, gfp_flags),
> > >  
> > > -DEFINE_EVENT(kmem_alloc, kmem_cache_alloc,
> > > +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> > > +		__field(	unsigned long,	call_site	)
> > > +		__field(	const void *,	ptr		)
> > > +		__field(	size_t,		bytes_req	)
> > > +		__field(	size_t,		bytes_alloc	)
> > > +		__field(	unsigned long,	gfp_flags	)
> > > +	),
> > >  
> > > -	TP_PROTO(unsigned long call_site, const void *ptr,
> > > -		 size_t bytes_req, size_t bytes_alloc, gfp_t gfp_flags),
> > > +	TP_fast_assign(
> > > +		__entry->call_site	= call_site;
> > > +		__entry->ptr		= ptr;
> > > +		__entry->bytes_req	= s->object_size;
> > > +		__entry->bytes_alloc	= s->size;
> > > +		__entry->gfp_flags	= (__force unsigned long)gfp_flags |
> > > +				(s->flags & SLAB_ACCOUNT ? __GFP_ACCOUNT : 0);
> > > +	),
> > 
> > This is a bit of lie. SLAB_ACCOUNT is not a gfp flag.
> 
> Alternatively we can add an explicit "accounted" boolean entry,
> which will be set to true if the SLAB_ACCOUNT slab cache flag or
> the __GFP_ACCOUNT gfp flag is present.

Or what about adding something like SlabAccounted or MemAccounted in
/proc/meminfo if what he want to know is total amount of memory accounted?

-- 
Thanks,
Hyeonggon




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