tracing: Add linear buckets to histogram logic
There's been several times I wished the histogram logic had a "grouping" feature for the buckets. Currently, each bucket has a size of one. That is, if you trace the amount of requested allocations, each allocation is its own bucket, even if you are interested in what allocates 100 bytes or less, 100 to 200, 200 to 300, etc. Also, without grouping, it fills up the allocated histogram buckets quickly. If you are tracking latency, and don't care if something is 200 microseconds off, or 201 microseconds off, but want to track them by say 10 microseconds each. This can not currently be done. There is a log2 but that grouping get's too big too fast for a lot of cases. Introduce a "buckets=SIZE" command to each field where it will record in a rounded number. For example: ># echo 'hist:keys=bytes_req.buckets=100:sort=bytes_req' > events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger ># cat events/kmem/kmalloc/hist # event histogram # # trigger info: hist:keys=bytes_req.buckets=100:vals=hitcount:sort=bytes_req.buckets=100:size=2048 [active] # { bytes_req: ~ 0-99 } hitcount: 3149 { bytes_req: ~ 100-199 } hitcount: 1468 { bytes_req: ~ 200-299 } hitcount: 39 { bytes_req: ~ 300-399 } hitcount: 306 { bytes_req: ~ 400-499 } hitcount: 364 { bytes_req: ~ 500-599 } hitcount: 32 { bytes_req: ~ 600-699 } hitcount: 69 { bytes_req: ~ 700-799 } hitcount: 37 { bytes_req: ~ 1200-1299 } hitcount: 16 { bytes_req: ~ 1400-1499 } hitcount: 30 { bytes_req: ~ 2000-2099 } hitcount: 6 { bytes_req: ~ 4000-4099 } hitcount: 2168 { bytes_req: ~ 5000-5099 } hitcount: 6 Totals: Hits: 7690 Entries: 13 Dropped: 0 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210707213921.980359719@goodmis.org Acked-by:Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Tested-by:
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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