linux-kernel - Re: preemption and rwsems (was: Re: missing madvise functionality)

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Date:	Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:08:22 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: preemption and rwsems (was: Re: missing madvise functionality)

* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > getting a good trace of it is easy: pick up the latest -rt kernel 
> > from:
> > 
> > 	http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> > 
> > enable EVENT_TRACING in that kernel, run the workload and do:
> > 
> > 	scripts/trace-it > to-ingo.txt
> > 
> > and send me the output.
> 
> Did that - no output was generated.  config at
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-akpm2.txt

sorry, i forgot to mention that you should turn off 
CONFIG_WAKEUP_TIMING.

i've attached an updated version of trace-it.c, which will turn this off 
itself, using a sysctl. I also made WAKEUP_TIMING default-off.

> I did get an interesting dmesg spew:
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-akpm2.txt

yeah, it's stack footprint measurement/instrumentation. It's 
particularly effective at tracking the worst-case stack footprint if you 
have FUNCTION_TRACING enabled - because in that case the kernel measures 
the stack's size at every function entry point. It does a maximum search 
so after bootup (in search of the 'largest' stack frame) so it's a bit 
verbose, but gets alot rarer later on. If it bothers you then disable:

  CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW=y

it could interfere with getting a quality scheduling trace anyway.

	Ingo

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