On 11/07/2014 02:57 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Vlastimil, > > On Fri, 07 Nov 2014, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Great, that's good news if I understand correctly, but ... > > no "but ..." > >> I suggested the commit to you for revert 1 day ago, and you say you >> can't reproduce it for 2 days already? That's a bit suspicious. Did > > No, you suggested it yesterday during the day, and here in Japan the > next day is already over, so my feeling is two days ;-) > > So all fine ;-)
Ah, good, just wanted to be sure. >> I'll prepare a debugging patch and send with instructions. Meanwhile >> you could send the /proc/zoneinfo contents? :) > > When? Running which kernel? Anyway, with the current kernel (reverted > commit as before) I get the attached zoneinfo. It doesn't matter which kernel. Thanks, but I didn't find anything suspicious there... expected some oddly aligned zones, but it all seemed to be aligned to pageblock boundaries. > Thanks, and waiting for your patches ;-) Tracing patch attached. You should apply this to the broken kernel, i.e. without the revert, and have tracing enabled, i.e. CONFIG_FTRACE. There should be /sys/kernel/debug/tracing directory. To avoid overhead and noise, I would just run this kernel as usual, and only when khugepaged/firefox/whatever starts misbehaving, do the following: cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing echo 1 > tracing_on echo 1 > events/compaction/enable cat trace_pipe | tee /tmp/trace #(or somewhere else) You should see events scrolling on the screen, including the misbehaving processes. After a minute or something, ctrl+c and send me the trace file. Thanks a lot! Vlastimil > Norbert > ------8<------ >From 59c93237ad2fb2317e61c8f00ea73d93ff8a2813 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 16:12:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] compaction: detailed free scanner tracing --- include/trace/events/compaction.h | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ mm/compaction.c | 9 +++++-- 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/trace/events/compaction.h b/include/trace/events/compaction.h index c6814b9..db83ea4 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/compaction.h +++ b/include/trace/events/compaction.h @@ -12,38 +12,73 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(mm_compaction_isolate_template, TP_PROTO(unsigned long nr_scanned, - unsigned long nr_taken), + unsigned long nr_taken, + unsigned long last_pfn), - TP_ARGS(nr_scanned, nr_taken), + TP_ARGS(nr_scanned, nr_taken, last_pfn), TP_STRUCT__entry( __field(unsigned long, nr_scanned) __field(unsigned long, nr_taken) + __field(unsigned long, last_pfn) ), TP_fast_assign( __entry->nr_scanned = nr_scanned; __entry->nr_taken = nr_taken; + __entry->last_pfn = last_pfn; ), - TP_printk("nr_scanned=%lu nr_taken=%lu", + TP_printk("nr_scanned=%lu nr_taken=%lu last_pfn=%lu", __entry->nr_scanned, - __entry->nr_taken) + __entry->nr_taken, + __entry->last_pfn) ); DEFINE_EVENT(mm_compaction_isolate_template, mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages, TP_PROTO(unsigned long nr_scanned, - unsigned long nr_taken), + unsigned long nr_taken, + unsigned long last_pfn), - TP_ARGS(nr_scanned, nr_taken) + TP_ARGS(nr_scanned, nr_taken, last_pfn) ); DEFINE_EVENT(mm_compaction_isolate_template, mm_compaction_isolate_freepages, TP_PROTO(unsigned long nr_scanned, - unsigned long nr_taken), + unsigned long nr_taken, + unsigned long last_pfn), - TP_ARGS(nr_scanned, nr_taken) + TP_ARGS(nr_scanned, nr_taken, last_pfn) +); + +TRACE_EVENT(mm_compaction_isolate_freepages_loop, + TP_PROTO(unsigned long low_pfn, + unsigned long block_start_pfn, + unsigned long isolate_start_pfn, + unsigned long block_end_pfn), + + TP_ARGS(low_pfn, block_start_pfn, isolate_start_pfn, block_end_pfn), + + TP_STRUCT__entry( + __field(unsigned long, low_pfn) + __field(unsigned long, block_start_pfn) + __field(unsigned long, isolate_start_pfn) + __field(unsigned long, block_end_pfn) + ), + + TP_fast_assign( + __entry->low_pfn = low_pfn; + __entry->block_start_pfn = block_start_pfn; + __entry->isolate_start_pfn = isolate_start_pfn; + __entry->block_end_pfn = block_end_pfn; + ), + + TP_printk("low=%lu block_start=%lu isolate_start=%lu block_end=%lu", + __entry->low_pfn, + __entry->block_start_pfn, + __entry->isolate_start_pfn, + __entry->block_end_pfn) ); TRACE_EVENT(mm_compaction_migratepages, diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index ec74cf0..4931b21 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -426,7 +426,8 @@ isolate_fail: /* Record how far we have got within the block */ *start_pfn = blockpfn; - trace_mm_compaction_isolate_freepages(nr_scanned, total_isolated); + trace_mm_compaction_isolate_freepages(nr_scanned, total_isolated, + blockpfn); /* * If strict isolation is requested by CMA then check that all the @@ -734,7 +735,8 @@ isolate_success: if (low_pfn == end_pfn) update_pageblock_skip(cc, valid_page, nr_isolated, true); - trace_mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages(nr_scanned, nr_isolated); + trace_mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages(nr_scanned, nr_isolated, + low_pfn); count_compact_events(COMPACTMIGRATE_SCANNED, nr_scanned); if (nr_isolated) @@ -838,6 +840,9 @@ static void isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc) isolate_start_pfn = block_start_pfn) { unsigned long isolated; + trace_mm_compaction_isolate_freepages_loop(low_pfn, + block_start_pfn, isolate_start_pfn, block_end_pfn); + /* * This can iterate a massively long zone without finding any * suitable migration targets, so periodically check if we need -- 2.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/