Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: cma: add trace events to debug physically-contiguous memory allocations

[Stefan Strogin]

Hi Aneesh,

On 03/03/15 12:13, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 
> Are we interested only in successful allocation and release ? Should we also
> have the trace point carry information regarding failure ?
> 
> -aneesh
> 

I think we actually can be interested in tracing allocation failures
too. Thanks for the remark.

Should it be smth like that?
@@ -408,6 +410,8 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, int count,
unsigned int align)
 		start = bitmap_no + mask + 1;
 	}

+	trace_cma_alloc(cma, page, count);
+
 	pr_debug("%s(): returned %p\n", __func__, page);
 	return page;
 }

and in include/trace/events/cma.h:
+TRACE_EVENT(cma_alloc,
<...>
+	TP_fast_assign(
+		__entry->page = page;
+		__entry->count = count;
+	),
+
+	TP_printk("page=%p pfn=%lu count=%lu\n",
+		  __entry->page,
+		  __entry->page ? page_to_pfn(__entry->page) : 0,
+		  __entry->count)
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