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authorDennis Zhou <dennisz@fb.com>2017-06-19 19:28:31 -0400
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2017-06-20 15:31:38 -0400
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downloadlinux-30a5b5367ef9d5c9055414e12ec2f02d9de2e70f.tar.bz2
percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs
There is limited visibility into the use of percpu memory leaving us unable to reason about correctness of parameters and overall use of percpu memory. These counters and statistics aim to help understand basic statistics about percpu memory such as number of allocations over the lifetime, allocation sizes, and fragmentation. New Config: PERCPU_STATS Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisz@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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@@ -706,3 +706,11 @@ config ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
bool
config ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
bool
+
+config PERCPU_STATS
+ bool "Collect percpu memory statistics"
+ default n
+ help
+ This feature collects and exposes statistics via debugfs. The
+ information includes global and per chunk statistics, which can
+ be used to help understand percpu memory usage.