The patch titled writeback: trace wakeup event for background writeback has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is writeback-trace-wakeup-event-for-background-writeback.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: writeback: trace wakeup event for background writeback From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> This tracks when balance_dirty_pages() tries to wakeup the flusher thread for background writeback (if it was not started already). Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 1 + include/trace/events/writeback.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/fs-writeback.c~writeback-trace-wakeup-event-for-background-writeback fs/fs-writeback.c --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c~writeback-trace-wakeup-event-for-background-writeback +++ a/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ void bdi_start_background_writeback(stru * We just wake up the flusher thread. It will perform background * writeback as soon as there is no other work to do. */ + trace_writeback_wake_background(bdi); spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock); bdi_wakeup_flusher(bdi); spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock); diff -puN include/trace/events/writeback.h~writeback-trace-wakeup-event-for-background-writeback include/trace/events/writeback.h --- a/include/trace/events/writeback.h~writeback-trace-wakeup-event-for-background-writeback +++ a/include/trace/events/writeback.h @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_class, name, \ TP_ARGS(bdi)) DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_nowork); +DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_background); DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_thread); DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_forker_thread); DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_register); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-smaps-export-mlock-information.patch writeback-integrated-background-writeback-work.patch writeback-trace-wakeup-event-for-background-writeback.patch writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works.patch writeback-avoid-livelocking-wb_sync_all-writeback.patch writeback-check-skipped-pages-on-wb_sync_all.patch memcg-add-page_cgroup-flags-for-dirty-page-tracking.patch memcg-document-cgroup-dirty-memory-interfaces.patch memcg-document-cgroup-dirty-memory-interfaces-fix.patch memcg-create-extensible-page-stat-update-routines.patch memcg-add-lock-to-synchronize-page-accounting-and-migration.patch writeback-create-dirty_info-structure.patch memcg-add-dirty-page-accounting-infrastructure.patch memcg-add-kernel-calls-for-memcg-dirty-page-stats.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-use-native-word-to-represent-dirtyable-pages.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-catch-negative-per-cpu-sums-in-dirty-info.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-avoid-overflow-in-memcg_hierarchical_free_pages.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-correct-memcg_hierarchical_free_pages-return-type.patch memcg-add-dirty-limits-to-mem_cgroup-avoid-free-overflow-in-memcg_hierarchical_free_pages.patch memcg-cpu-hotplug-lockdep-warning-fix.patch memcg-add-cgroupfs-interface-to-memcg-dirty-limits.patch memcg-break-out-event-counters-from-other-stats.patch memcg-check-memcg-dirty-limits-in-page-writeback.patch memcg-use-native-word-page-statistics-counters.patch memcg-use-native-word-page-statistics-counters-fix.patch memcg-add-mem_cgroup-parameter-to-mem_cgroup_page_stat.patch memcg-pass-mem_cgroup-to-mem_cgroup_dirty_info.patch memcg-make-throttle_vm_writeout-memcg-aware.patch memcg-simplify-mem_cgroup_page_stat.patch memcg-simplify-mem_cgroup_dirty_info.patch memcg-make-mem_cgroup_page_stat-return-value-unsigned.patch memcg-use-zalloc-rather-than-mallocmemset.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html