Re: [PATCH] trace: Add migrate-disabled counter to tracing output.

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 18:49:07 +0200
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:

> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> 
> migrate_disable() forbids task migration to another CPU. It is available
> since v5.11 and has already users such as highmem or BPF. It is useful
> to observe this task state in tracing which already has other states
> like the preemption counter.
> 
> Add the migrate-disable counter to the trace entry so it shows up in the
> trace. Due to the users mentioned above, it is already possible to
> observe it:
> 
> |  bash-1108    [000] ...21    73.950578: rss_stat: mm_id=2213312838 curr=0 type=MM_ANONPAGES size=8192B
> |  bash-1108    [000] d..31    73.951222: irq_disable: caller=flush_tlb_mm_range+0x115/0x130 parent=ptep_clear_flush+0x42/0x50
> |  bash-1108    [000] d..31    73.951222: tlb_flush: pages:1 reason:local mm shootdown (3)
> 
> The last value is the migrate-disable counter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> [bigeasy: patch description.]
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> ---
>  include/linux/trace_events.h |  2 ++
>  kernel/trace/trace.c         | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
>  kernel/trace/trace_events.c  |  1 +
>  kernel/trace/trace_output.c  |  5 +++++
>  4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/trace_events.h b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> index ad413b382a3ca..7c4280b4c6be7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/trace_events.h
> +++ b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ struct trace_entry {
>  	unsigned char		flags;
>  	unsigned char		preempt_count;
>  	int			pid;
> +	unsigned char		migrate_disable;

The only issue I have with this patch is this part. It extends the
header of all events beyond 8 bytes, and actually adds another 4 or 8
bytes despite being just a char in size. That's because this is a
header of a structure, which depending on the first field of an event,
padding may be added to have 4 or 8 byte alignment.

I'll be fine with merging this counter with either flags or
preempt_count (neither needs all 8 bits). I can figure out how to
update libtraceevent to handle this case.

-- Steve


>  };
>  
>  #define TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX						\
> @@ -157,6 +158,7 @@ static inline void tracing_generic_entry_update(struct trace_entry *entry,
>  						unsigned int trace_ctx)