mm, vmscan: add active list aging tracepoint

Our reclaim process has several tracepoints to tell us more about how
things are progressing.  We are, however, missing a tracepoint to track
active list aging.  Introduce mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_active which reports
the number of

	- nr_taken is number of isolated pages from the active list
	- nr_referenced pages which tells us that we are hitting referenced
	  pages which are deactivated. If this is a large part of the
	  reported nr_deactivated pages then we might be hitting into
	  the active list too early because they might be still part of
	  the working set. This might help to debug performance issues.
	- nr_active pages which tells us how many pages are kept on the
	  active list - mostly exec file backed pages. A high number can
	  indicate that we might be trashing on executables.

[mhocko@suse.com: update]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104135244.GJ25453@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104101942.4860-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
index 39bad8921ca1..c295d8f1b67a 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h
@@ -363,6 +363,42 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive,
 		show_reclaim_flags(__entry->reclaim_flags))
 );
 
+TRACE_EVENT(mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_active,
+
+	TP_PROTO(int nid, unsigned long nr_taken,
+		unsigned long nr_active, unsigned long nr_deactivated,
+		unsigned long nr_referenced, int priority, int file),
+
+	TP_ARGS(nid, nr_taken, nr_active, nr_deactivated, nr_referenced, priority, file),
+
+	TP_STRUCT__entry(
+		__field(int, nid)
+		__field(unsigned long, nr_taken)
+		__field(unsigned long, nr_active)
+		__field(unsigned long, nr_deactivated)
+		__field(unsigned long, nr_referenced)
+		__field(int, priority)
+		__field(int, reclaim_flags)
+	),
+
+	TP_fast_assign(
+		__entry->nid = nid;
+		__entry->nr_taken = nr_taken;
+		__entry->nr_active = nr_active;
+		__entry->nr_deactivated = nr_deactivated;
+		__entry->nr_referenced = nr_referenced;
+		__entry->priority = priority;
+		__entry->reclaim_flags = trace_shrink_flags(file);
+	),
+
+	TP_printk("nid=%d nr_taken=%ld nr_active=%ld nr_deactivated=%ld nr_referenced=%ld priority=%d flags=%s",
+		__entry->nid,
+		__entry->nr_taken,
+		__entry->nr_active, __entry->nr_deactivated, __entry->nr_referenced,
+		__entry->priority,
+		show_reclaim_flags(__entry->reclaim_flags))
+);
+
 #endif /* _TRACE_VMSCAN_H */
 
 /* This part must be outside protection */