[PATCH 3/3] mm: mmap_lock: add ip to mmap_lock tracepoints

From: Gang Li
Date: Thu Jul 29 2021 - 05:29:14 EST


The mmap_lock is acquired on most (all?) mmap / munmap / page fault
operations, so a multi-threaded process which does a lot of these
can experience significant contention. Sometimes we want to know
where the lock is hold. And it's hard to locate without collecting ip.

Here's an example: TP_printk("ip=%pS",ip)
Log looks like this: "ip=do_user_addr_fault+0x274/0x640"

We can find out who cause the contention amd make some improvements
for it.

Signed-off-by: Gang Li <ligang.bdlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
mm/mmap_lock.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h b/include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h
index b9dd66f9c226..8913a9f85894 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/mmap_lock.h
@@ -15,35 +15,39 @@ extern void trace_mmap_lock_unreg(void);

DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(mmap_lock,

- TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, const char *memcg_path, bool write),
+ TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, const char *memcg_path, bool write,
+ unsigned long ip),

- TP_ARGS(mm, memcg_path, write),
+ TP_ARGS(mm, memcg_path, write, ip),

TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field(struct mm_struct *, mm)
__string(memcg_path, memcg_path)
__field(bool, write)
+ __field(void *, ip)
),

TP_fast_assign(
__entry->mm = mm;
__assign_str(memcg_path, memcg_path);
__entry->write = write;
+ __entry->ip = (void *)ip;
),

TP_printk(
- "mm=%p memcg_path=%s write=%s",
+ "mm=%p memcg_path=%s write=%s ip=%pS",
__entry->mm,
__get_str(memcg_path),
- __entry->write ? "true" : "false"
- )
+ __entry->write ? "true" : "false",
+ __entry->ip
+ )
);

#define DEFINE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(name) \
DEFINE_EVENT_FN(mmap_lock, name, \
TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, const char *memcg_path, \
- bool write), \
- TP_ARGS(mm, memcg_path, write), \
+ bool write, unsigned long ip), \
+ TP_ARGS(mm, memcg_path, write, ip), \
trace_mmap_lock_reg, trace_mmap_lock_unreg)

DEFINE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(mmap_lock_start_locking);
@@ -52,14 +56,15 @@ DEFINE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(mmap_lock_released);
TRACE_EVENT_FN(mmap_lock_acquire_returned,

TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, const char *memcg_path, bool write,
- bool success),
+ unsigned long ip, bool success),

- TP_ARGS(mm, memcg_path, write, success),
+ TP_ARGS(mm, memcg_path, write, ip, success),

TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field(struct mm_struct *, mm)
__string(memcg_path, memcg_path)
__field(bool, write)
+ __field(void *, ip)
__field(bool, success)
),

@@ -67,14 +72,16 @@ TRACE_EVENT_FN(mmap_lock_acquire_returned,
__entry->mm = mm;
__assign_str(memcg_path, memcg_path);
__entry->write = write;
+ __entry->ip = (void *)ip;
__entry->success = success;
),

TP_printk(
- "mm=%p memcg_path=%s write=%s success=%s",
+ "mm=%p memcg_path=%s write=%s ip=%pS success=%s",
__entry->mm,
__get_str(memcg_path),
__entry->write ? "true" : "false",
+ __entry->ip,
__entry->success ? "true" : "false"
),

diff --git a/mm/mmap_lock.c b/mm/mmap_lock.c
index 1854850b4b89..f1100eae6f2f 100644
--- a/mm/mmap_lock.c
+++ b/mm/mmap_lock.c
@@ -227,20 +227,20 @@ static const char *get_mm_memcg_path(struct mm_struct *mm)

void __mmap_lock_do_trace_start_locking(struct mm_struct *mm, bool write)
{
- TRACE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(start_locking, mm, write);
+ TRACE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(start_locking, mm, write, _RET_IP_);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mmap_lock_do_trace_start_locking);

void __mmap_lock_do_trace_acquire_returned(struct mm_struct *mm, bool write,
bool success)
{
- TRACE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(acquire_returned, mm, write, success);
+ TRACE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(acquire_returned, mm, write, _RET_IP_, success);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mmap_lock_do_trace_acquire_returned);

void __mmap_lock_do_trace_released(struct mm_struct *mm, bool write)
{
- TRACE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(released, mm, write);
+ TRACE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(released, mm, write, _RET_IP_);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mmap_lock_do_trace_released);
#endif /* CONFIG_TRACING */
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2.20.1