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    filemap: add trace events for get_pages, map_pages, and fault · b6273b55
    Takaya Saeki authored
    To allow precise tracking of page caches accessed, add new tracepoints
    that trigger when a process actually accesses them.
    
    The ureadahead program used by ChromeOS traces the disk access of programs
    as they start up at boot up.  It uses mincore(2) or the
    'mm_filemap_add_to_page_cache' trace event to accomplish this.  It stores
    this information in a "pack" file and on subsequent boots, it will read
    the pack file and call readahead(2) on the information so that disk
    storage can be loaded into RAM before the applications actually need it.
    
    A problem we see is that due to the kernel's readahead algorithm that can
    aggressively pull in more data than needed (to try and accomplish the same
    goal) and this data is also recorded.  The end result is that the pack
    file contains a lot of pages on disk that are never actually used. 
    Calling readahead(2) on these unused pages can slow down the system boot
    up times.
    
    To solve this, add 3 new trace events, get_pages, map_pages, and fault. 
    These will be used to trace the pages are not only pulled in from disk,
    but are actually used by the application.  Only those pages will be stored
    in the pack file, and this helps out the performance of boot up.
    
    With the combination of these 3 new trace events and
    mm_filemap_add_to_page_cache, we observed a reduction in the pack file by
    7.3% - 20% on ChromeOS varying by device.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240813100312.3930505-1-takayas@chromium.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarTakaya Saeki <takayas@chromium.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Junichi Uekawa <uekawa@chromium.org>
    Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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