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Date:   Wed, 25 May 2022 07:33:24 +0000
From:   Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
To:     Vasily Averin <vvs@openvz.org>
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
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        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
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        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] tracing: add 'accounted' entry into output of
 allocation tracepoints
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On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 09:36:54PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> 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 "accounted" 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@openvz.org>
> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
> ---


Maybe I worried a bit much...

I failed to apply it on slab/for-next and v5.18. What tree is it based on?

> v4:
>  1) replaced in patch descripion: "accounted" instead of "allocated"
>  2) added "Acked-by" from Shakeel,
>  3) re-addressed to akpm@
> 
> v3:
>  1) rework kmem_cache_alloc* tracepoints once again,
>     added struct kmem_cache argument into existing templates,
> 	thanks to Matthew Wilcox
>  2) updated according 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.
> ---
>  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(-)