Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753411AbZDVBAn (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:00:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751766AbZDVBAe (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:00:34 -0400 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:34158 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751356AbZDVBAd (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:00:33 -0400 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Larry Woodman Subject: Re: [Patch] mm tracepoints update Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, rostedt@goodmis.org In-Reply-To: <1240353915.11613.39.camel@dhcp-100-19-198.bos.redhat.com> References: <1240353915.11613.39.camel@dhcp-100-19-198.bos.redhat.com> Message-Id: <20090422095916.627A.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50 [ja] Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:00:30 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1761 Lines: 47 > > I've cleaned up the mm tracepoints to track page allocation and > freeing, various types of pagefaults and unmaps, and critical page > reclamation routines. This is useful for debugging memory allocation > issues and system performance problems under heavy memory loads. In past thread, Andrew pointed out bare page tracer isn't useful. Can you make good consumer? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > # tracer: mm > # > # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION > # | | | | | > pdflush-624 [004] 184.293169: wb_kupdate: > mm_pdflush_kupdate count=3e48 > pdflush-624 [004] 184.293439: get_page_from_freelist: > mm_page_allocation pfn=447c27 zone_free=1940910 > events/6-33 [006] 184.962879: free_hot_cold_page: > mm_page_free pfn=44bba9 > irqbalance-8313 [001] 188.042951: unmap_vmas: > mm_anon_userfree mm=ffff88044a7300c0 address=7f9a2eb70000 pfn=24c29a > cat-9122 [005] 191.141173: filemap_fault: > mm_filemap_fault primary fault: mm=ffff88024c9d8f40 address=3cea2dd000 > pfn=44d68e > cat-9122 [001] 191.143036: handle_mm_fault: > mm_anon_fault mm=ffff88024c8beb40 address=7fffbde99f94 pfn=24ce22 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Signed-off-by: Larry Woodman > Acked-by: Rik van Riel > > > The patch applies to ingo's latest tip tree: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/