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

[Dmitry Rokosov]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 08:15:47AM +0000, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 11:03:34AM +0300, Dmitry Rokosov wrote:
> [...]
> > > > +		cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup,
> > > > +			__entry->name,
> > > > +			sizeof(__entry->name));
> > > 
> > > Any reason not to use cgroup_ino? cgroup_name may conflict and be
> > > ambiguous.
> > 
> > I actually didn't consider it, as the cgroup name serves as a clear tag
> > for filtering the appropriate cgroup in the entire trace file. However,
> > you are correct that there might be conflicts with cgroup names.
> > Therefore, it might be better to display both tags: ino and name. What
> > do you think on this?
> > 
> 
> I can see putting cgroup name can avoid pre or post processing, so
> putting both are fine. Though keep in mind that cgroup_name acquires a
> lock which may impact the applications running on the system.

Are you talking about kernfs_rename_lock? Yes, it's acquired each
time... Unfortunatelly, I don't know a way to save cgroup_name one time
somehow...

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Thank you,
Dmitry