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author | SeongJae Park <[email protected]> | 2021-09-07 19:56:53 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2021-09-08 11:50:24 -0700 |
commit | 4bc05954d0076655cfaf6f0135585bdc20cd6b11 (patch) | |
tree | 00b897c31bda2176f34f610c2e7c848a128e63ad /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-sqlite.py | |
parent | 2fcb93629ad8911c846cdc44521c746e53cc4e6d (diff) |
mm/damon: implement a debugfs-based user space interface
DAMON is designed to be used by kernel space code such as the memory
management subsystems, and therefore it provides only kernel space API.
That said, letting the user space control DAMON could provide some
benefits to them. For example, it will allow user space to analyze their
specific workloads and make their own special optimizations.
For such cases, this commit implements a simple DAMON application kernel
module, namely 'damon-dbgfs', which merely wraps the DAMON api and exports
those to the user space via the debugfs.
'damon-dbgfs' exports three files, ``attrs``, ``target_ids``, and
``monitor_on`` under its debugfs directory, ``<debugfs>/damon/``.
Attributes
----------
Users can read and write the ``sampling interval``, ``aggregation
interval``, ``regions update interval``, and min/max number of monitoring
target regions by reading from and writing to the ``attrs`` file. For
example, below commands set those values to 5 ms, 100 ms, 1,000 ms, 10,
1000 and check it again::
# cd <debugfs>/damon
# echo 5000 100000 1000000 10 1000 > attrs
# cat attrs
5000 100000 1000000 10 1000
Target IDs
----------
Some types of address spaces supports multiple monitoring target. For
example, the virtual memory address spaces monitoring can have multiple
processes as the monitoring targets. Users can set the targets by writing
relevant id values of the targets to, and get the ids of the current
targets by reading from the ``target_ids`` file. In case of the virtual
address spaces monitoring, the values should be pids of the monitoring
target processes. For example, below commands set processes having pids
42 and 4242 as the monitoring targets and check it again::
# cd <debugfs>/damon
# echo 42 4242 > target_ids
# cat target_ids
42 4242
Note that setting the target ids doesn't start the monitoring.
Turning On/Off
--------------
Setting the files as described above doesn't incur effect unless you
explicitly start the monitoring. You can start, stop, and check the
current status of the monitoring by writing to and reading from the
``monitor_on`` file. Writing ``on`` to the file starts the monitoring of
the targets with the attributes. Writing ``off`` to the file stops those.
DAMON also stops if every targets are invalidated (in case of the virtual
memory monitoring, target processes are invalidated when terminated).
Below example commands turn on, off, and check the status of DAMON::
# cd <debugfs>/damon
# echo on > monitor_on
# echo off > monitor_on
# cat monitor_on
off
Please note that you cannot write to the above-mentioned debugfs files
while the monitoring is turned on. If you write to the files while DAMON
is running, an error code such as ``-EBUSY`` will be returned.
[[email protected]: remove unneeded "alloc failed" printks]
[[email protected]: replace macro with static inline]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Leonard Foerster <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Fernand Sieber <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Shah <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Fan Du <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Cc: Markus Boehme <[email protected]>
Cc: Maximilian Heyne <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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