On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 01:17:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:05:58 +0530 Gautam Menghani <gautammenghani201@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In the file mm/khugepaged.c, a TODO in the function collapse_file() asks > > to add tracepoints. Add the tracepoint named "mm_khugepaged_collapse_file". > > This isn't a very satisfying explanation for changing the kernel. Maybe > the comment is stale are this tracepoint is unneeded. > > Please explain afresh how this addition benefits kernel users? > The function collapse_file() is called by the function hpage_collapse_scan_file(). Without a tracepoint in collapse_file(), we won't know if it was called or not and as a result, we also won't know if it returned successfully or not. Also, as Zach mentioned earlier [1]: there are a few scan result codes that overlap between hpage_collapse_scan_file() and those possibly returned in collapse_file() such that, if we only have the one tracepoint in hpage_collapse_scan_file(), it could be ambiguous what callsite the error path stemmed from. [1]:https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAAa6QmSKtj6T2dW1tkg5_HVj2+rXj5inOLdEzr0MkJzQxxcPXQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Please do let me know if a v3 is needed. Thanks, Gautam
