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[PATCH v2 0/2] Get callbacks/names of shrinkers from tracepoints

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Currently, it is not possible to know which shrinkers are being run.
Even though the callbacks are printed using %pF in tracepoints 
mm_shrink_slab_start and mm_shrink_slab_end, they are not visible to
userspace tools like perf.

To address this, this patchset
1. Enables the display of names of shrinker callbacks in tracepoints
mm_shrink_slab_start and mm_shrink_slab_end.
2. Adds a new tracepoint in the callback of the superblock shrinker to
get specific names of superblock types.

Changes since v1 at https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/9/33:
1. This patchset does not introduce a new variable to hold names of
shrinkers, unlike v1. It makes mm_shrink_slab_start and
mm_shrink_slab_end print names of callbacks instead.
2. It also adds a new tracepoint for superblock shrinkers to display
more specific name information, which v1 did not do.

Thanks to Dave Chinner and Tony Jones for their suggestions.

Janani Ravichandran (2):
  include: trace: Display names of shrinker callbacks
  fs: super.c: Add tracepoint to get name of superblock shrinker

 fs/super.c                    |  2 ++
 include/trace/events/vmscan.h | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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[PATCH v2 0/2] Get callbacks/names of shrinkers from tracepoints Janani Ravichandran <janani.rvchndrn@gmail.com> - 2016-08-18 07:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/2] include: trace: Display names of shrinker callbacks Janani Ravichandran <janani.rvchndrn@gmail.com> - 2016-08-18 07:50 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/2] fs: super.c: Add tracepoint to get name of superblock  shrinker Janani Ravichandran <janani.rvchndrn@gmail.com> - 2016-08-18 08:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] fs: super.c: Add tracepoint to get name of  superblock shrinker Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-08-18 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] fs: super.c: Add tracepoint to get name of  superblock shrinker Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-18 08:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] fs: super.c: Add tracepoint to get name of  superblock shrinker Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> - 2016-08-18 15:30 +0200

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