sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running

Add a bare tracepoint trace_sched_update_nr_running_tp which tracks
->nr_running CPU's rq. This is used to accurately trace this data and
provide a visualization of scheduler imbalances in, for example, the
form of a heat map.  The tracepoint is accessed by loading an external
kernel module. An example module (forked from Qais' module and including
the pelt related tracepoints) can be found at:

  https://github.com/auldp/tracepoints-helpers.git

A script to turn the trace-cmd report output into a heatmap plot can be
found at:

  https://github.com/jirvoz/plot-nr-running

The tracepoints are added to add_nr_running() and sub_nr_running() which
are in kernel/sched/sched.h. In order to avoid CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in
the header a wrapper call is used and the trace/events/sched.h include
is moved before sched.h in kernel/sched/core.

Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629192303.GC120228@lorien.usersys.redhat.com

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h
index 04f9a4c7b0d9..0d5ff0958d48 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
@@ -642,6 +642,10 @@ DECLARE_TRACE(sched_util_est_se_tp,
 	TP_PROTO(struct sched_entity *se),
 	TP_ARGS(se));
 
+DECLARE_TRACE(sched_update_nr_running_tp,
+	TP_PROTO(struct rq *rq, int change),
+	TP_ARGS(rq, change));
+
 #endif /* _TRACE_SCHED_H */
 
 /* This part must be outside protection */