Re: [PATCH 3/4] percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Dennis,

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Dennis Zhou <dennisz@xxxxxx> wrote:
> There is limited visibility into the use of percpu memory leaving us
> unable to reason about correctness of parameters and overall use of
> percpu memory. These counters and statistics aim to help understand
> basic statistics about percpu memory such as number of allocations over
> the lifetime, allocation sizes, and fragmentation.
>
> New Config: PERCPU_STATS
>
> Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisz@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/Kconfig           |   8 ++
>  mm/Makefile          |   1 +
>  mm/percpu-internal.h | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/percpu-km.c       |   4 +
>  mm/percpu-stats.c    | 222 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/percpu-vm.c       |   5 ++
>  mm/percpu.c          |   9 +++
>  7 files changed, 380 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 mm/percpu-stats.c
>
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index beb7a45..8fae426 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -706,3 +706,11 @@ config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
>         bool
>  config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
>         bool
> +
> +config PERCPU_STATS
> +       bool "Collect percpu memory statistics"
> +       default n
> +       help
> +         This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The
> +         information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can
> +         be used to help understand percpu memory usage.

Just wondering: does this option make sense to enable on !SMP?

If not, you may want to make it depend on SMP.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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