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Commit b3d1411b authored by Joel Fernandes (Google)'s avatar Joel Fernandes (Google) Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: emit tracepoint when RSS changes

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: default avatarTim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8897c1b1
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