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linux-next/include/trace/events
Mel Gorman 4b4f278c03 tracing, page-allocator: add trace events for page allocation and page freeing
This patch adds trace events for the allocation and freeing of pages,
including the freeing of pagevecs.  Using the events, it will be known
what struct page and pfns are being allocated and freed and what the call
site was in many cases.

The page alloc tracepoints be used as an indicator as to whether the
workload was heavily dependant on the page allocator or not.  You can make
a guess based on vmstat but you can't get a per-process breakdown.
Depending on the call path, the call_site for page allocation may be
__get_free_pages() instead of a useful callsite.  Instead of passing down
a return address similar to slab debugging, the user should enable the
stacktrace and seg-addr options to get a proper stack trace.

The pagevec free tracepoint has a different usecase.  It can be used to
get a idea of how many pages are being dumped off the LRU and whether it
is kswapd doing the work or a process doing direct reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
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block.h tracing: prevent NULL pointer dereference in ftrace_raw_event_block_bio_bounce 2009-09-12 21:31:19 -04:00
ext4.h ext4: Add a tracepoint for ext4_alloc_da_blocks() 2009-09-16 19:30:40 -04:00
irq.h softirq: add BLOCK_IOPOLL to softirq_to_name 2009-09-17 15:53:44 -04:00
jbd2.h ext4: fix tracepoint format string warnings 2009-09-17 08:50:18 -04:00
kmem.h tracing, page-allocator: add trace events for page allocation and page freeing 2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
kvm.h KVM: Add trace points in irqchip code 2009-09-10 08:33:11 +03:00
lockdep.h tracing/events: Move TRACE_SYSTEM outside of include guard 2009-07-13 10:59:55 +02:00
module.h tracing/events: Add module tracepoints 2009-08-17 11:25:08 +02:00
napi.h Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -07:00
power.h tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer 2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
sched.h perf_counter, sched: Add sched_stat_runtime tracepoint 2009-09-13 18:17:28 +02:00
skb.h net: skb ftracer - add tracepoint to skb_copy_datagram_iovec (v3) 2009-08-13 16:26:14 -07:00
syscalls.h tracing: Create generic syscall TRACE_EVENTs 2009-08-26 00:41:48 +02:00
workqueue.h tracing/events: Move TRACE_SYSTEM outside of include guard 2009-07-13 10:59:55 +02:00