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mm,vmacache: count number of system-wide flushes

These flushes deal with sequence number overflows, such as for long lived
threads.  These are rare, but interesting from a debugging PoV.  As such,
display the number of flushes when vmacache debugging is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Davidlohr Bueso 10 years ago
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3 changed files with 4 additions and 0 deletions
  1. 1 0
      include/linux/vm_event_item.h
  2. 2 0
      mm/vmacache.c
  3. 1 0
      mm/vmstat.c

+ 1 - 0
include/linux/vm_event_item.h

@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
 		VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS,
 		VMACACHE_FIND_HITS,
+		VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES,
 #endif
 		NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS
 };

+ 2 - 0
mm/vmacache.c

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ void vmacache_flush_all(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	struct task_struct *g, *p;
 
+	count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FULL_FLUSHES);
+
 	/*
 	 * Single threaded tasks need not iterate the entire
 	 * list of process. We can avoid the flushing as well

+ 1 - 0
mm/vmstat.c

@@ -900,6 +900,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE
 	"vmacache_find_calls",
 	"vmacache_find_hits",
+	"vmacache_full_flushes",
 #endif
 #endif /* CONFIG_VM_EVENTS_COUNTERS */
 };