[RFC PATCH 4/4] splice: Record some statistics

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Jun 29 2023 - 11:57:01 EST


Add a proc file to export some statistics for debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/splice.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/splice.h | 3 +++
mm/filemap.c | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 2b1f109a7d4f..831973ea6b3f 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -36,10 +36,15 @@
#include <linux/net.h>
#include <linux/socket.h>
#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>

#include "../mm/internal.h"
#include "internal.h"

+atomic_t splice_stat_filemap_copied, splice_stat_filemap_moved;
+static atomic_t splice_stat_directly_copied;
+static atomic_t vmsplice_stat_copied, vmsplice_stat_stole;
+
/*
* Splice doesn't support FMODE_NOWAIT. Since pipes may set this flag to
* indicate they support non-blocking reads or writes, we must clear it
@@ -276,6 +281,7 @@ ssize_t copy_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
remain -= chunk;
}

+ atomic_add(keep, &splice_stat_directly_copied);
kfree(bv);
return ret;
}
@@ -1299,6 +1305,7 @@ static int splice_try_to_steal_page(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
unmap_mapping_folio(folio);
if (remove_mapping(folio->mapping, folio)) {
folio_clear_mappedtodisk(folio);
+ atomic_inc(&vmsplice_stat_stole);
flags |= PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU;
goto add_to_pipe;
}
@@ -1316,6 +1323,7 @@ static int splice_try_to_steal_page(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
folio_put(folio);
folio = copy;
offset = 0;
+ atomic_inc(&vmsplice_stat_copied);

add_to_pipe:
page = folio_page(folio, offset / PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -1905,3 +1913,23 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(tee, int, fdin, int, fdout, size_t, len, unsigned int, flags)

return error;
}
+
+static int splice_stats_show(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
+{
+ seq_printf(m, "filemap: copied=%u moved=%u\n",
+ atomic_read(&splice_stat_filemap_copied),
+ atomic_read(&splice_stat_filemap_moved));
+ seq_printf(m, "direct : copied=%u\n",
+ atomic_read(&splice_stat_directly_copied));
+ seq_printf(m, "vmsplice: copied=%u stole=%u\n",
+ atomic_read(&vmsplice_stat_copied),
+ atomic_read(&vmsplice_stat_stole));
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int splice_stats_init(void)
+{
+ proc_create_single("fs/splice", S_IFREG | 0444, NULL, splice_stats_show);
+ return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(splice_stats_init);
diff --git a/include/linux/splice.h b/include/linux/splice.h
index 3c5abbd49ff2..4f04dc338010 100644
--- a/include/linux/splice.h
+++ b/include/linux/splice.h
@@ -98,4 +98,7 @@ extern int splice_grow_spd(const struct pipe_inode_info *, struct splice_pipe_de
extern void splice_shrink_spd(struct splice_pipe_desc *);

extern const struct pipe_buf_operations default_pipe_buf_ops;
+
+extern atomic_t splice_stat_filemap_copied, splice_stat_filemap_moved;
+
#endif
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index dd144b0dab69..38d38cc826fa 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2872,7 +2872,8 @@ ssize_t splice_folio_into_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
struct address_space *mapping;
struct folio *copy = NULL;
struct page *page;
- unsigned int flags = 0;
+ unsigned int flags = 0, count = 0;
+ atomic_t *stat = &splice_stat_filemap_copied;
ssize_t ret;
size_t spliced = 0, offset = offset_in_folio(folio, fpos);

@@ -2902,6 +2903,7 @@ ssize_t splice_folio_into_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
/* If we succeed in removing the mapping, set LRU flag and add it. */
if (remove_mapping(mapping, folio)) {
folio_unlock(folio);
+ stat = &splice_stat_filemap_moved;
flags = PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU;
goto add_to_pipe;
}
@@ -2940,8 +2942,10 @@ ssize_t splice_folio_into_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
page++;
spliced += part;
offset = 0;
+ count++;
}

+ atomic_add(count, stat);
if (copy)
folio_put(copy);
return spliced;