mm: emit tracepoint when RSS changes
authorJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Sun, 1 Dec 2019 01:50:30 +0000 (17:50 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 1 Dec 2019 14:29:18 +0000 (06:29 -0800)
Useful to track how RSS is changing per TGID to detect spikes in RSS and
memory hogs.  Several Android teams have been using this patch in
various kernel trees for half a year now.  Many reported to me it is
really useful so I'm posting it upstream.

Initial patch developed by Tim Murray.  Changes I made from original
patch: o Prevent any additional space consumed by mm_struct.

Regarding the fact that the RSS may change too often thus flooding the
traces - note that, there is some "hysterisis" with this already.  That
is - We update the counter only if we receive 64 page faults due to
SPLIT_RSS_ACCOUNTING.  However, during zapping or copying of pte range,
the RSS is updated immediately which can become noisy/flooding.  In a
previous discussion, we agreed that BPF or ftrace can be used to rate
limit the signal if this becomes an issue.

Also note that I added wrappers to trace_rss_stat to prevent compiler
errors where linux/mm.h is included from tracing code, causing errors
such as:

    CC      kernel/trace/power-traces.o
  In file included from ./include/trace/define_trace.h:102,
                   from ./include/trace/events/kmem.h:342,
                   from ./include/linux/mm.h:31,
                   from ./include/linux/ring_buffer.h:5,
                   from ./include/linux/trace_events.h:6,
                   from ./include/trace/events/power.h:12,
                   from kernel/trace/power-traces.c:15:
  ./include/trace/trace_events.h:113:22: error: field `ent' has incomplete type
     struct trace_entry ent;    \

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20190903200905.198642-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191001172817.234886-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Co-developed-by: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Carmen Jackson <carmenjackson@google.com>
Cc: Mayank Gupta <mayankgupta@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
include/trace/events/kmem.h
mm/memory.c

index f6fb714..9353830 100644 (file)
@@ -1643,19 +1643,27 @@ static inline unsigned long get_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
        return (unsigned long)val;
 }
 
+void mm_trace_rss_stat(int member, long count);
+
 static inline void add_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member, long value)
 {
-       atomic_long_add(value, &mm->rss_stat.count[member]);
+       long count = atomic_long_add_return(value, &mm->rss_stat.count[member]);
+
+       mm_trace_rss_stat(member, count);
 }
 
 static inline void inc_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
 {
-       atomic_long_inc(&mm->rss_stat.count[member]);
+       long count = atomic_long_inc_return(&mm->rss_stat.count[member]);
+
+       mm_trace_rss_stat(member, count);
 }
 
 static inline void dec_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
 {
-       atomic_long_dec(&mm->rss_stat.count[member]);
+       long count = atomic_long_dec_return(&mm->rss_stat.count[member]);
+
+       mm_trace_rss_stat(member, count);
 }
 
 /* Optimized variant when page is already known not to be PageAnon */
index 69e8bb8..5a0666b 100644 (file)
@@ -316,6 +316,27 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_page_alloc_extfrag,
                __entry->change_ownership)
 );
 
+TRACE_EVENT(rss_stat,
+
+       TP_PROTO(int member,
+               long count),
+
+       TP_ARGS(member, count),
+
+       TP_STRUCT__entry(
+               __field(int, member)
+               __field(long, size)
+       ),
+
+       TP_fast_assign(
+               __entry->member = member;
+               __entry->size = (count << PAGE_SHIFT);
+       ),
+
+       TP_printk("member=%d size=%ldB",
+               __entry->member,
+               __entry->size)
+       );
 #endif /* _TRACE_KMEM_H */
 
 /* This part must be outside protection */
index 9ea917e..57c910a 100644 (file)
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@
 #include <linux/oom.h>
 #include <linux/numa.h>
 
+#include <trace/events/kmem.h>
+
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
@@ -152,6 +154,10 @@ static int __init init_zero_pfn(void)
 }
 core_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
 
+void mm_trace_rss_stat(int member, long count)
+{
+       trace_rss_stat(member, count);
+}
 
 #if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)