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authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>2015-06-07 11:37:03 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-06-09 12:24:32 +0200
commit2a1dcb1f796ad37028df37d96fc7c5b6b1705a43 (patch)
treeef1afe258c5ccd08d723cabf7e78dbb50b48d7cc /arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
parent97efebf1bc30a80122af3295ebdb726dbc040ca6 (diff)
downloadlinux-2a1dcb1f796ad37028df37d96fc7c5b6b1705a43.tar.gz
x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
There are two different events being traced here.  They are
doing similar things so share a trace "EVENT_CLASS" and are
presented together.

1. Trace when MPX is zapping pages "mpx_unmap_zap":

	When MPX can not free an entire bounds table, it will
	instead try to zap unused parts of a bounds table to free
	the backing memory.  This decreases RSS (resident set
	size) without decreasing the virtual space allocated
	for bounds tables.

2. Trace attempts to find bounds tables "mpx_unmap_search":

	This event traces any time we go looking to unmap a
	bounds table for a given virtual address range.  This is
	useful to ensure that the kernel actually "tried" to free
	a bounds table versus times it succeeded in finding one.

	It might try and fail if it realized that a table was
	shared with an adjacent VMA which is not being unmapped.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150607183703.B9D2468B@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/mpx.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/mpx.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
index 75e5d7043f65..55729ee9263e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
@@ -668,6 +668,7 @@ static int zap_bt_entries(struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 		len = min(vma->vm_end, end) - addr;
 		zap_page_range(vma, addr, len, NULL);
+		trace_mpx_unmap_zap(addr, addr+len);
 
 		vma = vma->vm_next;
 		addr = vma->vm_start;
@@ -840,6 +841,7 @@ static int mpx_unmap_tables(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	long __user *bd_entry, *bde_start, *bde_end;
 	unsigned long bt_addr;
 
+	trace_mpx_unmap_search(start, end);
 	/*
 	 * "Edge" bounds tables are those which are being used by the region
 	 * (start -> end), but that may be shared with adjacent areas.  If they