Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: memcg: print out cgroup name in the memcg tracepoints

From: Shakeel Butt
Date: Thu Nov 23 2023 - 02:21:35 EST


On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 01:01:55PM +0300, Dmitry Rokosov wrote:
> Sometimes it is necessary to understand in which memcg tracepoint event
> occurred. The function cgroup_name() is a useful tool for this purpose.
> To integrate cgroup_name() into the existing memcg tracepoints, this
> patch introduces a new tracepoint template for the begin() and end()
> events, utilizing static __array() to store the cgroup name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/trace/events/vmscan.h | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> mm/vmscan.c | 10 ++---
> 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
> index d2123dd960d5..9b49cd120ae9 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
> @@ -141,19 +141,47 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin_template, mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_b
> );
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> -DEFINE_EVENT(mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin_template, mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin,
>
> - TP_PROTO(int order, gfp_t gfp_flags),
> +DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin_template,
>
> - TP_ARGS(order, gfp_flags)
> + TP_PROTO(int order, gfp_t gfp_flags, const struct mem_cgroup *memcg),
> +
> + TP_ARGS(order, gfp_flags, memcg),
> +
> + TP_STRUCT__entry(
> + __field(int, order)
> + __field(unsigned long, gfp_flags)
> + __array(char, name, NAME_MAX + 1)
> + ),
> +
> + TP_fast_assign(
> + __entry->order = order;
> + __entry->gfp_flags = (__force unsigned long)gfp_flags;
> + cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup,
> + __entry->name,
> + sizeof(__entry->name));

Any reason not to use cgroup_ino? cgroup_name may conflict and be
ambiguous.