[PATCH 5/7] x86: mm: add tracepoints for TLB flushes

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Jul 31 2014 - 11:41:14 EST



Changes from v3:
* remove trace_tlb.c and __print_symbolic() instead
* make sure to cover all cases in flush_tlb_func()
* remove _DONE "reason" since it was not precise enough

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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

We don't have any good way to figure out what kinds of flushes
are being attempted. Right now, we can try to use the vm
counters, but those only tell us what we actually did with the
hardware (one-by-one vs full) and don't tell us what was actually
_requested_.

This allows us to select out "interesting" TLB flushes that we
might want to optimize (like the ranged ones) and ignore the ones
that we have very little control over (the ones at context
switch).

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---

b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 6 +++++
b/arch/x86/mm/init.c | 7 +++++
b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 11 +++++++--
b/include/linux/mm_types.h | 8 ++++++
b/include/trace/events/tlb.h | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h~tlb-trace-flushes arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h~tlb-trace-flushes 2014-06-30 16:18:33.294800281 -0700
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h 2014-06-30 16:18:33.306800827 -0700
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@

#include <asm/desc.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/mm_types.h>
+
+#include <trace/events/tlb.h>
+
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/paravirt.h>
@@ -44,6 +48,7 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_s

/* Re-load page tables */
load_cr3(next->pgd);
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);

/* Stop flush ipis for the previous mm */
cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(prev));
@@ -71,6 +76,7 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_s
* to make sure to use no freed page tables.
*/
load_cr3(next->pgd);
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
load_LDT_nolock(&next->context);
}
}
diff -puN arch/x86/mm/init.c~tlb-trace-flushes arch/x86/mm/init.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c~tlb-trace-flushes 2014-06-30 16:18:33.298800464 -0700
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c 2014-06-30 16:18:37.515992478 -0700
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@
#include <asm/dma.h> /* for MAX_DMA_PFN */
#include <asm/microcode.h>

+/*
+ * We need to define the tracepoints somewhere, and tlb.c
+ * is only compied when SMP=y.
+ */
+#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
+#include <trace/events/tlb.h>
+
#include "mm_internal.h"

static unsigned long __initdata pgt_buf_start;
diff -puN arch/x86/mm/tlb.c~tlb-trace-flushes arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c~tlb-trace-flushes 2014-06-30 16:18:33.301800600 -0700
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c 2014-06-30 16:18:33.307800873 -0700
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ void leave_mm(int cpu)
if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(active_mm))) {
cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(active_mm));
load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(leave_mm);
@@ -107,15 +108,19 @@ static void flush_tlb_func(void *info)

count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_REMOTE_FLUSH_RECEIVED);
if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.state) == TLBSTATE_OK) {
- if (f->flush_end == TLB_FLUSH_ALL)
+ if (f->flush_end == TLB_FLUSH_ALL) {
local_flush_tlb();
- else {
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
+ } else {
unsigned long addr;
+ unsigned long nr_pages =
+ f->flush_end - f->flush_start / PAGE_SIZE;
addr = f->flush_start;
while (addr < f->flush_end) {
__flush_tlb_single(addr);
addr += PAGE_SIZE;
}
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, nr_pages);
}
} else
leave_mm(smp_processor_id());
@@ -153,6 +158,7 @@ void flush_tlb_current_task(void)

count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL);
local_flush_tlb();
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), smp_processor_id()) < nr_cpu_ids)
flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask(mm), mm, 0UL, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
preempt_enable();
@@ -191,6 +197,7 @@ void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct
__flush_tlb_single(addr);
}
}
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, base_pages_to_flush);
out:
if (base_pages_to_flush == TLB_FLUSH_ALL) {
start = 0UL;
diff -puN include/linux/mm_types.h~tlb-trace-flushes include/linux/mm_types.h
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~tlb-trace-flushes 2014-06-30 16:18:33.303800691 -0700
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h 2014-06-30 16:18:35.089882014 -0700
@@ -516,4 +516,12 @@ struct vm_special_mapping
struct page **pages;
};

+enum tlb_flush_reason {
+ TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH,
+ TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN,
+ TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN,
+ TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN,
+ NR_TLB_FLUSH_REASONS,
+};
+
#endif /* _LINUX_MM_TYPES_H */
diff -puN /dev/null include/trace/events/tlb.h
--- /dev/null 2014-04-10 11:28:14.066815724 -0700
+++ b/include/trace/events/tlb.h 2014-06-30 16:18:37.476990703 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
+#define TRACE_SYSTEM tlb
+
+#if !defined(_TRACE_TLB_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
+#define _TRACE_TLB_H
+
+#include <linux/mm_types.h>
+#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
+
+#define TLB_FLUSH_REASON \
+ { TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" }, \
+ { TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" }, \
+ { TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" }, \
+ { TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" }
+
+TRACE_EVENT(tlb_flush,
+
+ TP_PROTO(int reason, unsigned long pages),
+ TP_ARGS(reason, pages),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field( int, reason)
+ __field(unsigned long, pages)
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->reason = reason;
+ __entry->pages = pages;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("pages:%ld reason:%s (%d)",
+ __entry->pages,
+ __print_symbolic(__entry->reason, TLB_FLUSH_REASON),
+ __entry->reason)
+);
+
+#endif /* _TRACE_TLB_H */
+
+/* This part must be outside protection */
+#include <trace/define_trace.h>
+
_
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