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Minchan Kim [Mon, 6 Aug 2018 06:00:19 +0000 (15:00 +0900)]

mm: introduce per-process mm event tracking feature

Linux supports /proc/meminfo and /proc/vmstat stats as memory health metric.
Android uses them too. If user see something goes wrong(e.g., sluggish, jank)
on their system, they can capture and report system state to developers
for debugging.

It shows memory stat at the moment the bug is captured. However, it’s
not enough to investigate application's jank problem caused by memory
shortage. Because

1. It just shows event count which doesn’t quantify the latency of the
application well. Jank could happen by various reasons and one of simple
scenario is frame drop for a second. App should draw the frame every 16ms
interval. Just number of stats(e.g., allocstall or pgmajfault) couldn't
represnt how many of time the app spends for handling the event.

2. At bugreport, dump with vmstat and meminfo is never helpful because it's
too late to capture the moment when the problem happens.
When the user catch up the problem and try to capture the system state,
the problem has already gone.

3. Although we could capture MM stat at the moment bug happens, it couldn't
be helpful because MM stats are usually very flucuate so we need historical
data rather than one-time snapshot to see MM trend.

To solve above problems, this patch introduces per-process, light-weight,
mm event stat. Basically, it tracks minor/major faults, reclaim and compaction
latency of each process as well as event count and record the data into global
buffer.
To compromise memory overhead, it doesn't record every MM event of the process
to the buffer but just drain accumuated stats every 0.5sec interval to buffer.
If there isn't any event, it just skips the recording.
For latency data, it keeps average/max latency of each event in that period

With that, we could keep useful information with small buffer so that
we couldn't miss precious information any longer although the capture time
is rather late. This patch introduces basic facility of MM event stat.

After all patches in this patchset are applied, outout format is as follows,
dumpstate can use it for VM debugging in future.

<...>-1665  [001] d...   217.575173: mm_event_record: min_flt count=203 avg_lat=3 max_lat=58
<...>-1665  [001] d...   217.575183: mm_event_record: maj_flt count=1 avg_lat=1994 max_lat=1994
<...>-1665  [001] d...   217.575184: mm_event_record: kern_alloc count=227 avg_lat=0 max_lat=0
<...>-626   [000] d...   217.578096: mm_event_record: kern_alloc count=4 avg_lat=0 max_lat=0
<...>-6547  [000] ....   217.581913: mm_event_record: min_flt count=7 avg_lat=7 max_lat=20
<...>-6547  [000] ....   217.581955: mm_event_record: kern_alloc count=4 avg_lat=0 max_lat=0

This feature uses event trace for output buffer so that we could use all of
general benefit of event trace(e.g., buffer size management, filtering and
so on). To prevent overflow of the ring buffer by other random event race,
highly suggest that create separate instance of tracing
on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/

I had a concern of adding overhead. Actually, major|compaction/reclaim
are already heavy cost so it should be not a concern. Rather than,
minor fault and kern alloc would be severe so I tested a micro benchmark
to measure minor page fault overhead.

Test scenario is create 40 threads and each of them does minor
page fault for 25M range(ranges are not overwrapped).
I didn't see any noticible regression.

Base:
fault/wsec avg: 758489.8288

minor faults=13123118, major faults=0 ctx switch=139234
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  39.55s   41.73s   17.49s        749995.768
minor faults=13123135, major faults=0 ctx switch=139627
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  34.59s   41.61s   16.95s        773906.976
minor faults=13123061, major faults=0 ctx switch=139254
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  39.03s   41.55s   16.97s        772966.334
minor faults=13123131, major faults=0 ctx switch=139970
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  36.71s   42.12s   17.04s        769941.019
minor faults=13123027, major faults=0 ctx switch=138524
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  42.08s   42.24s   18.08s        725639.047

Base + MM event + event trace enable:
fault/wsec avg: 759626.1488

minor faults=13123488, major faults=0 ctx switch=140303
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  37.66s   42.21s   17.48s        750414.257
minor faults=13123066, major faults=0 ctx switch=138119
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  36.77s   42.14s   17.49s        750010.107
minor faults=13123505, major faults=0 ctx switch=140021
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  38.51s   42.50s   17.54s        748022.219
minor faults=13123431, major faults=0 ctx switch=138517
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  36.74s   41.49s   17.03s        770255.610
minor faults=13122955, major faults=0 ctx switch=137174
    User   System     Wall        fault/wsec
  40.68s   40.97s   16.83s        779428.551

Mot-CRs-fixed: (CR)

Bug: 80168800
Change-Id: I4e69c994f47402766481c58ab5ec2071180964b8
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Cho KyongHo <pullip.cho@samsung.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.mot.com/1453718
SME-Granted: SME Approvals Granted
SLTApproved: Slta Waiver
Tested-by: Jira Key
Reviewed-by: Xiangpo Zhao <zhaoxp3@motorola.com>
Submit-Approved: Jira Key