[tip: sched/core] sched/tracepoints: Move and extend the sched_process_exit() tracepoint

From: tip-bot2 for Andrii Nakryiko
Date: Fri Apr 04 2025 - 04:38:10 EST


The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 3e816361e94a0e79b1aabf44abec552e9698b196
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/3e816361e94a0e79b1aabf44abec552e9698b196
Author: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:09:25 -07:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:30:19 +02:00

sched/tracepoints: Move and extend the sched_process_exit() tracepoint

It is useful to be able to access current->mm at task exit to, say,
record a bunch of VMA information right before the task exits (e.g., for
stack symbolization reasons when dealing with short-lived processes that
exit in the middle of profiling session). Currently,
trace_sched_process_exit() is triggered after exit_mm() which resets
current->mm to NULL making this tracepoint unsuitable for inspecting
and recording task's mm_struct-related data when tracing process
lifetimes.

There is a particularly suitable place, though, right after
taskstats_exit() is called, but before we do exit_mm() and other
exit_*() resource teardowns. taskstats performs a similar kind of
accounting that some applications do with BPF, and so co-locating them
seems like a good fit. So that's where trace_sched_process_exit() is
moved with this patch.

Also, existing trace_sched_process_exit() tracepoint is notoriously
missing `group_dead` flag that is certainly useful in practice and some
of our production applications have to work around this. So plumb
`group_dead` through while at it, to have a richer and more complete
tracepoint.

Note that we can't use sched_process_template anymore, and so we use
TRACE_EVENT()-based tracepoint definition. But all the field names and
order, as well as assign and output logic remain intact. We just add one
extra field at the end in backwards-compatible way.

Document the dependency to sched_process_template anyway.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402180925.90914-1-andrii@xxxxxxxxxx
---
include/trace/events/sched.h | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
kernel/exit.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h
index 8994e97..3bec9fb 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
@@ -326,11 +326,37 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(sched_process_template, sched_process_free,
TP_ARGS(p));

/*
- * Tracepoint for a task exiting:
+ * Tracepoint for a task exiting.
+ * Note, it's a superset of sched_process_template and should be kept
+ * compatible as much as possible. sched_process_exits has an extra
+ * `group_dead` argument, so sched_process_template can't be used,
+ * unfortunately, just like sched_migrate_task above.
*/
-DEFINE_EVENT(sched_process_template, sched_process_exit,
- TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p),
- TP_ARGS(p));
+TRACE_EVENT(sched_process_exit,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p, bool group_dead),
+
+ TP_ARGS(p, group_dead),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __array( char, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN )
+ __field( pid_t, pid )
+ __field( int, prio )
+ __field( bool, group_dead )
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ memcpy(__entry->comm, p->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
+ __entry->pid = p->pid;
+ __entry->prio = p->prio; /* XXX SCHED_DEADLINE */
+ __entry->group_dead = group_dead;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("comm=%s pid=%d prio=%d group_dead=%s",
+ __entry->comm, __entry->pid, __entry->prio,
+ __entry->group_dead ? "true" : "false"
+ )
+);

/*
* Tracepoint for waiting on task to unschedule:
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 1b51dc0..f1db86d 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -936,12 +936,12 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)

tsk->exit_code = code;
taskstats_exit(tsk, group_dead);
+ trace_sched_process_exit(tsk, group_dead);

exit_mm();

if (group_dead)
acct_process();
- trace_sched_process_exit(tsk);

exit_sem(tsk);
exit_shm(tsk);