From: Dave Hansen Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 18:37:03 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.3/legacy-v2-signed~203^2~10 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a1dcb1f796ad37028df37d96fc7c5b6b1705a43;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150607183703.B9D2468B@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed