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Up until now, /sys/kernel/tracing/events was no different than any other part of tracefs. The files and directories within the events directory was created when the tracefs was mounted, and also created for the instances in /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/<instance>/events. Most of these files and directories will never be referenced. Since there are thousands of these files and directories they spend their time wasting precious memory resources. Move the "events" directory to the new eventfs. The eventfs will take the meta data of the events that they represent and store that. When the files in the events directory are referenced, the dentry and inodes to represent them are then created. When the files are no longer referenced, they are freed. This saves the precious memory resources that were wasted on these seldom referenced dentries and inodes. Running the following: ~# cat /proc/meminfo /proc/slabinfo > before.out ~# mkdir /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/foo ~# cat /proc/meminfo /proc/slabinfo > after.out to test the changes produces the following deltas: Before this change: Before after deltas for meminfo: MemFree: -32260 MemAvailable: -21496 KReclaimable: 21528 Slab: 22440 SReclaimable: 21528 SUnreclaim: 912 VmallocUsed: 16 Before after deltas for slabinfo: <slab>: <objects> [ * <size> = <total>] tracefs_inode_cache: 14472 [* 1184 = 17134848] buffer_head: 24 [* 168 = 4032] hmem_inode_cache: 28 [* 1480 = 41440] dentry: 14450 [* 312 = 4508400] lsm_inode_cache: 14453 [* 32 = 462496] vma_lock: 11 [* 152 = 1672] vm_area_struct: 2 [* 184 = 368] trace_event_file: 1748 [* 88 = 153824] kmalloc-256: 1072 [* 256 = 274432] kmalloc-64: 2842 [* 64 = 181888] Total slab additions in size: 22,763,400 bytes With this change: Before after deltas for meminfo: MemFree: -12600 MemAvailable: -12580 Cached: 24 Active: 12 Inactive: 68 Inactive(anon): 48 Active(file): 12 Inactive(file): 20 Dirty: -4 AnonPages: 68 KReclaimable: 12 Slab: 1856 SReclaimable: 12 SUnreclaim: 1844 KernelStack: 16 PageTables: 36 VmallocUsed: 16 Before after deltas for slabinfo: <slab>: <objects> [ * <size> = <total>] tracefs_inode_cache: 108 [* 1184 = 127872] buffer_head: 24 [* 168 = 4032] hmem_inode_cache: 18 [* 1480 = 26640] dentry: 127 [* 312 = 39624] lsm_inode_cache: 152 [* 32 = 4864] vma_lock: 67 [* 152 = 10184] vm_area_struct: -12 [* 184 = -2208] trace_event_file: 1764 [* 96 = 169344] kmalloc-96: 14322 [* 96 = 1374912] kmalloc-64: 2814 [* 64 = 180096] kmalloc-32: 1103 [* 32 = 35296] kmalloc-16: 2308 [* 16 = 36928] kmalloc-8: 12800 [* 8 = 102400] Total slab additions in size: 2,109,984 bytes Which is a savings of 20,653,416 bytes (20 MB) per tracing instance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1690568452-46553-10-git-send-email-akaher@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com> Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Ching-lin Yu <chinglinyu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.