Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Getting the page fault count for domU

[Adin Scannell <adin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm assuming you're talking about faults through the paging mechanism.

The page fault handling is all done in dom0 user-space, so the number
of faults for a particular vCPU for a given period in time can be
easily tracked by the daemon without modifying hypervisor code.  When
a vCPU faults (i.e. trys to access a page that is currently paged
out), it will be paused -- so it's not possible for the vCPU to accrue
additional page faults until the userspace daemon handles the first
one.  I'm not sure what your use-case is, but there's probably a
better way of sharing this information with other user-space tools
than through an additional field in struct domain.

Cheers,
-Adin

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Chintamani Siddeshwar
<chintamani.sid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am thinking of doing something like
>
> 1) Add a field "unsigned long page_fault_count" to struct domain defined in
> in xen/sched.h
>
> 2) Increment this counter mem_paging_domctl(...) defined in
> arch/x_86/mm/mem_paging.c for
>               case XEN_DOMCTL_MEM_EVENT_OP_PAGING_EVICT
>
> I will then access this information is available from within struct
> vcpu->domain->page_fault_count.
>
> Please correct me if my chain of thought is wrong or if it is too
> simplistic.
> Looking forward to your valuable comments
>
>    thanks
> Chintamani
>
>
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