Re: [Patch] mm tracepoints

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:01 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 18:38 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 18:10 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > Looks pretty good and useful to me. I've Cc:-ed more mm folks, 
> > > > it would be nice to hear their opinion about these tracepoints.
> > > > 
> > > > Andrew, Nick, Peter, what do you think?
> > > 
> > > Bit sad we use the struct mm_struct * as mm identifier (little %lx vs %p
> > > confusion there too), but I suppose there simply isn't anything better.
> > 
> > > Things missing, 
> > 
> > Why only anon and filemap, that misses out on all the funky 
> > driver ->fault() handlers.
> 
> btw., does it include shm faults? I think all of this would be 
> handled if the tracepoint was at handle_mm_fault(), right?

Partially, you wouldn't be able to do the file:offset thing you asked
for.

But yeah, also hugetlb seems to be missing.

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