Re: Re: [PATCH v6 09/14] mm/damon: Add a tracepoint for result writing

[SeongJae Park]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:03:31 +0000 Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:30:42 +0100
> SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This commit adds a tracepoint for DAMON's result buffer writing.  It is
> > called for each writing of the DAMON results and print the result data.
> > Therefore, it would be used to easily integrated with other tracepoint
> > supporting tracers such as perf.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'm curious, why at the flush of rbuf rather than using a more structured trace
> point for each of the writes into rbuf?
> 
> Seems it would make more sense to have a tracepoint for each record write out.
> Probably at the level of each task, though might be more elegant to do it at the
> level of each region within a task and duplicate the header stuff.

I was worried if the format changes, but agree your suggestion is the right
way.  Will change so in next spin.


Thanks,
SeongJae Park

> 
> > ---
> >  include/trace/events/damon.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  mm/damon.c                   |  4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 include/trace/events/damon.h
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/trace/events/damon.h b/include/trace/events/damon.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..fb33993620ce
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/include/trace/events/damon.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > +#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
> > +#define TRACE_SYSTEM damon
> > +
> > +#if !defined(_TRACE_DAMON_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
> > +#define _TRACE_DAMON_H
> > +
> > +#include <linux/types.h>
> > +#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
> > +
> > +TRACE_EVENT(damon_write_rbuf,
> > +
> > +	TP_PROTO(void *buf, const ssize_t sz),
> > +
> > +	TP_ARGS(buf, sz),
> > +
> > +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> > +		__dynamic_array(char, buf, sz)
> > +	),
> > +
> > +	TP_fast_assign(
> > +		memcpy(__get_dynamic_array(buf), buf, sz);
> > +	),
> > +
> > +	TP_printk("dat=%s", __print_hex(__get_dynamic_array(buf),
> > +			__get_dynamic_array_len(buf)))
> > +);
> > +
> > +#endif /* _TRACE_DAMON_H */
> > +
> > +/* This part must be outside protection */
> > +#include <trace/define_trace.h>
> > diff --git a/mm/damon.c b/mm/damon.c
> > index facb1d7f121b..8faf3879f99e 100644
> > --- a/mm/damon.c
> > +++ b/mm/damon.c
> > @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
> >  
> >  #define pr_fmt(fmt) "damon: " fmt
> >  
> > +#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> > +
> >  #include <linux/damon.h>
> >  #include <linux/debugfs.h>
> >  #include <linux/delay.h>
> > @@ -20,6 +22,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
> >  #include <linux/sched/task.h>
> >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> > +#include <trace/events/damon.h>
> >  
> >  #define damon_get_task_struct(t) \
> >  	(get_pid_task(find_vpid(t->pid), PIDTYPE_PID))
> > @@ -553,6 +556,7 @@ static void damon_flush_rbuffer(struct damon_ctx *ctx)
> >   */
> >  static void damon_write_rbuf(struct damon_ctx *ctx, void *data, ssize_t size)
> >  {
> > +	trace_damon_write_rbuf(data, size);
> >  	if (!ctx->rbuf_len || !ctx->rbuf)
> >  		return;
> >  	if (ctx->rbuf_offset + size > ctx->rbuf_len)
>