Re: [PATCH v3] tracing: add 'accounted' entry into output of allocation tracepoints

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 18 May 2022 09:24:51 +0300
Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

FYI, the subject should be something like: mm/tracing:

Because "tracing:" is reserved for tracing infrastructure updates.

> Slab caches marked with SLAB_ACCOUNT force accounting for every
> allocation from this cache even if __GFP_ACCOUNT flag is not passed.
> Unfortunately, at the moment this flag is not visible in ftrace output,
> and this makes it difficult to analyze the accounted allocations.
> 
> This patch adds boolean "allocated" entry into trace output,
> and set it to 'true' for calls used __GFP_ACCOUNT flag and
> for allocations from caches marked with SLAB_ACCOUNT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3:
>  1) rework kmem_cache_alloc* tracepoints once again,
>     added struct kmem_cache argument into existing templates,
> 	thanks to Matthew Wilcox
>  2) updated the corresponding ding trace_* calls
>  3) added boolean "allocated" entry into trace output,
> 	thanks to Roman
>  4) updated patch subject and description
> 
> v2:
>  1) handle kmem_cache_alloc_node(), thanks to Shakeel
>  2) rework kmem_cache_alloc* tracepoints to use cachep instead
>     of current cachep->*size parameters.
>     NB: kmem_cache_alloc_node tracepoint in SLOB cannot use cachep,
>         and therefore it was replaced by kmalloc_node.
> ---
> Now kmem tracing output looks like this:
> 
> kmem_cache_alloc:     (getname_flags.part.0+0x2c) call_site=getname_flags.part.0+0x2c ptr=0xffff8fff022e9000 bytes_req=4096 bytes_alloc=4096 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL accounted=false
> kmalloc:              (alloc_bprm+0x32) call_site=alloc_bprm+0x32 ptr=0xffff8fff2b408a00 bytes_req=416 bytes_alloc=512 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO accounted=false
> kmem_cache_alloc:     (mm_alloc+0x16) call_site=mm_alloc+0x16 ptr=0xffff8fff0894d500 bytes_req=1048 bytes_alloc=1088 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL accounted=true
> mm_page_alloc:        page=0xffffffffa4ab8d42 pfn=0x12ad72 order=1 migratetype=0 gfp_flags=GFP_USER|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_ACCOUNT
> kmem_cache_alloc:     (vm_area_alloc+0x1a) call_site=vm_area_alloc+0x1a ptr=0xffff8fff2af27000 bytes_req=200 bytes_alloc=200 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL accounted=true
> ---
>  include/trace/events/kmem.h | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  mm/slab.c                   | 10 +++++-----
>  mm/slab_common.c            |  9 ++++-----
>  mm/slob.c                   |  8 ++++----
>  mm/slub.c                   | 20 +++++++++----------
>  5 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/trace/events/kmem.h b/include/trace/events/kmem.h
> index 71c141804222..5bfeb6f276f1 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/kmem.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/kmem.h
> @@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(kmem_alloc,
>  
>  	TP_PROTO(unsigned long call_site,
>  		 const void *ptr,
> +		 struct kmem_cache *s,
>  		 size_t bytes_req,
>  		 size_t bytes_alloc,
>  		 gfp_t gfp_flags),
>  
> -	TP_ARGS(call_site, ptr, bytes_req, bytes_alloc, gfp_flags),
> +	TP_ARGS(call_site, ptr, s, bytes_req, bytes_alloc, gfp_flags),
>  
>  	TP_STRUCT__entry(
>  		__field(	unsigned long,	call_site	)
> @@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(kmem_alloc,
>  		__field(	size_t,		bytes_req	)
>  		__field(	size_t,		bytes_alloc	)
>  		__field(	unsigned long,	gfp_flags	)
> +		__field(	bool,		accounted	)
>  	),
>  
>  	TP_fast_assign(
> @@ -33,42 +35,46 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(kmem_alloc,
>  		__entry->bytes_req	= bytes_req;
>  		__entry->bytes_alloc	= bytes_alloc;
>  		__entry->gfp_flags	= (__force unsigned long)gfp_flags;
> +		__entry->accounted	= (gfp_flags & __GFP_ACCOUNT) ||
> +					  (s && s->flags & SLAB_ACCOUNT);

Now you could make this even faster in the fast path and save just the
s->flags.

	__entry->sflags = s ? s->flags : 0;

>  	),
>  
> -	TP_printk("call_site=%pS ptr=%p bytes_req=%zu bytes_alloc=%zu gfp_flags=%s",
> +	TP_printk("call_site=%pS ptr=%p bytes_req=%zu bytes_alloc=%zu gfp_flags=%s accounted=%s",
>  		(void *)__entry->call_site,
>  		__entry->ptr,
>  		__entry->bytes_req,
>  		__entry->bytes_alloc,
> -		show_gfp_flags(__entry->gfp_flags))
> +		show_gfp_flags(__entry->gfp_flags),
> +		__entry->accounted ? "true" : "false")

And then have: "accounted=%s":

		(__entry->gfp_flags & __GFP_ACCOUNT) ||
		(__entry->sflags & SLAB_ACCOUNT) ? "true" : "false"


-- Steve

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