Commit 95813b8f authored by Joonsoo Kim's avatar Joonsoo Kim Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/page_ref: add tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation

CMA allocation should be guaranteed to succeed by definition, but,
unfortunately, it would be failed sometimes.  It is hard to track down
the problem, because it is related to page reference manipulation and we
don't have any facility to analyze it.

This patch adds tracepoints to track down page reference manipulation.
With it, we can find exact reason of failure and can fix the problem.
Following is an example of tracepoint output.  (note: this example is
stale version that printing flags as the number.  Recent version will
print it as human readable string.)

<...>-9018  [004]    92.678375: page_ref_set:         pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x0 count=1 mapcount=0 mapping=(nil) mt=4 val=1
<...>-9018  [004]    92.678378: kernel_stack:
 => get_page_from_freelist (ffffffff81176659)
 => __alloc_pages_nodemask (ffffffff81176d22)
 => alloc_pages_vma (ffffffff811bf675)
 => handle_mm_fault (ffffffff8119e693)
 => __do_page_fault (ffffffff810631ea)
 => tr...
parent fe896d18
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