[PATCH v4 3/4] mm/ksm: add tracepoint for ksm advisor

[Stefan Roesch]

This adds a new tracepoint for the ksm advisor. It reports the last scan
time, the new setting of the pages_to_scan parameter and the average cpu
percent usage of the ksmd background thread for the last scan.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/trace/events/ksm.h | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/ksm.c                   |  1 +
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/ksm.h b/include/trace/events/ksm.h
index b5ac35c1d0e88..e728647b5d268 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/ksm.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/ksm.h
@@ -245,6 +245,39 @@ TRACE_EVENT(ksm_remove_rmap_item,
 			__entry->pfn, __entry->rmap_item, __entry->mm)
 );
 
+/**
+ * ksm_advisor - called after the advisor has run
+ *
+ * @scan_time:		scan time in seconds
+ * @pages_to_scan:	new pages_to_scan value
+ * @cpu_percent:	cpu usage in percent
+ *
+ * Allows to trace the ksm advisor.
+ */
+TRACE_EVENT(ksm_advisor,
+
+	TP_PROTO(s64 scan_time, unsigned long pages_to_scan,
+		 unsigned int cpu_percent),
+
+	TP_ARGS(scan_time, pages_to_scan, cpu_percent),
+
+	TP_STRUCT__entry(
+		__field(s64,		scan_time)
+		__field(unsigned long,	pages_to_scan)
+		__field(unsigned int,	cpu_percent)
+	),
+
+	TP_fast_assign(
+		__entry->scan_time	= scan_time;
+		__entry->pages_to_scan	= pages_to_scan;
+		__entry->cpu_percent	= cpu_percent;
+	),
+
+	TP_printk("ksm scan time %lld pages_to_scan %lu cpu percent %u",
+			__entry->scan_time, __entry->pages_to_scan,
+			__entry->cpu_percent)
+);
+
 #endif /* _TRACE_KSM_H */
 
 /* This part must be outside protection */
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index f7387a6d02050..4962e44131e68 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -452,6 +452,7 @@ static void scan_time_advisor(void)
 	advisor_ctx.cpu_time = cpu_time;
 
 	ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = pages;
+	trace_ksm_advisor(scan_time, pages, cpu_percent);
 }
 
 static void advisor_stop_scan(void)
-- 
2.39.3