Re: [PATCH] mmap_lock: add tracepoints around lock acquisition

[Axel Rasmussen]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:09 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:04:17 +0800
> Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > What you can do, and what we have done is the following:
> > >
> > > (see include/linux/page_ref.h)
> > >
> > >
> > > #ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
> > > extern struct tracepoint __tracepoint_mmap_lock_start_locking;
> > > extern struct tracepoint __tracepoint_mmap_lock_acquire_returned;
> > >
> > > #define mmap_lock_tracepoint_active(t) static_key_false(&(__tracepoint_mmap_lock_##t).key)
> > >
> > > #else
> > > #define mmap_lock_tracepoint_active(t) false
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > static inline void mmap_write_lock(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > > {
> > >         if (mmap_lock_tracepoint_active(start_locking))
> > >                 mmap_lock_start_trace_wrapper();
> > >         down_write(&mm->mmap_lock);
> > >         if (mmap_lock_tracepoint_active(acquire_returned))
> > >                 mmap_lock_acquire_trace_wrapper();
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Steve
> >
> >
> > Great!
> >
> > Thanks Steve.
>
> If the above becomes useful, I may just add helper functions into a
> header file that you can include. Perhaps call it: tracepoint_active()
> and you need to pass in as an argument the name of the tracepoint.

Thanks for this suggestion Steven, it's working quite well.

I also have a very short patch to the tracing which allows plumbing
the string values through to "just work".

I plan to send out a v2 before the end of the week.

>
> -- Steve