Re: [PATCH] tracing: add trace event for memory-failure

[Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> wrote:
> Memory-failure as the high level machine check handler, it's necessary
> to report memory page recovery action result to user space by ftrace.
>
> This patch add a event at ras group for memory-failure.
>
> The output like below:
> # tracer: nop
> #
> # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2   #P:24
> #
> #                              _-----=> irqs-off
> #                             / _----=> need-resched
> #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
> #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
> #                            ||| /     delay
> #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
> #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
>       mce-inject-13150 [001] ....   277.019359: memory_failure_event: pfn 0x19869: free buddy page recovery: Delayed
>
> Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
> ---
>  include/ras/ras_event.h |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/memory-failure.c     |    3 +++
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/ras/ras_event.h b/include/ras/ras_event.h
> index 79abb9c..0a6c8f3 100644
> --- a/include/ras/ras_event.h
> +++ b/include/ras/ras_event.h
> @@ -232,6 +232,42 @@ TRACE_EVENT(aer_event,
>                 __print_flags(__entry->status, "|", aer_uncorrectable_errors))
>  );
>
> +/*
> + * memory-failure recovery action result event
> + *
> + * unsigned long pfn - Page Number of the corrupted page
> + * char * action -     Recovery action: "free buddy", "free huge", "high
> + *                     order kernel", "free buddy, 2nd try", "different
> + *                     compound page after locking", "hugepage already
> + *                     hardware poisoned", "unmapping failed", "already
> + *                     truncated LRU", etc.
> + * char * result -     Action result: Ignored, Failed, Delayed, Recovered.
> + */
> +TRACE_EVENT(memory_failure_event,
> +       TP_PROTO(const unsigned long pfn,
> +                const char *action,
> +                const char *result),
> +
> +       TP_ARGS(pfn, action, result),
> +
> +       TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +               __field(unsigned long, pfn)
> +               __string(action, action)
> +               __string(result, result)
> +       ),
> +
> +       TP_fast_assign(
> +               __entry->pfn = pfn;
> +               __assign_str(action, action);
> +               __assign_str(result, result);
> +       ),
> +
> +       TP_printk("pfn %#lx: %s page recovery: %s",
> +               __entry->pfn,
> +               __get_str(action),
> +               __get_str(result)
> +       )
> +);
>  #endif /* _TRACE_HW_EVENT_MC_H */
>
>  /* This part must be outside protection */
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index d487f8d..86a9cce 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
>  #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
>  #include <linux/kfifo.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
> +#include <ras/ras_event.h>
>
>  int sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill __read_mostly = 0;
>
> @@ -837,6 +838,8 @@ static struct page_state {
>   */
>  static void action_result(unsigned long pfn, char *msg, int result)
>  {
> +       trace_memory_failure_event(pfn, msg, action_name[result]);
> +
>         pr_err("MCE %#lx: %s page recovery: %s\n",
>                 pfn, msg, action_name[result]);
>  }
> --
> 1.7.1
>
> --

Concept looks good to me. Adding Steven Rostedt as we've historically had
challenges adding new trace points in the cleanest way.

-Tony