linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Adds handler name to irq_handler

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Date:	Thu, 07 May 2015 15:49:24 -0700
From:	Badhri Jagan Sridharan <badhri@...gle.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Adds handler name to irq_handler_entry

Thanks Steven :) I have made the changes
that you mentioned and sent out an
updated version of the patch.

On 05/07/2015 02:54 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 07 May 2015 14:44:49 -0700
> Badhri Jagan Sridharan <badhri@...gle.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes Steven.. It shouldn't be too difficult to find out the
>> handler for a specific device. But, I am looking
>> at some user space scripts that looks across different devices,
>> to data-mine interrupt stats. Although, the interrupt
>> numbers from the device tree change from one device to
>> another, if its the same device driver, the handlers
>> remain the same. So it gives me a good sense of
>> similar interrupts that fire.
>>
>> If you think that its not to much of an overhead,I will send
>> a follow up patch to correct the spacing error that you
>> mentioned.
>
> OK.
>
>>
>> And did you really add Thomas to CC ?
>
> Ug, utter fail :-p  I wrote that from my laptop while upstairs (not in
> my office) and did not have Thomas in my address book. Then my wife
> came in and started talking to me, and when she left I hit send
> (forgetting to add Thomas in the Cc).
>
> Added now!
>
> -- Steve
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Badhri
>>
>> On 05/05/2015 08:19 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> [ Added Thomas to the Cc, as he maintains interrupts ]
>>>
>>> On Tue,  5 May 2015 20:06:27 -0700
>>> Badhri Jagan Sridharan <badhri@...gle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This patch includes the ISR function name to
>>>> irq_handler_entry trace point.
>>>
>>> It states what this patch does, but not why it does it.
>>>
>>> How much more difficult to map the handler to the interrupt?
>>>
>>> Just asking, I'm not sure I needed this, and I use this tracepoint all
>>> the time. But then again, I'm a bit of an tracing expert, and can add
>>> function graph tracing to see what is happening too. I shouldn't always
>>> be the judge on usefulness of added info here ;-)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Badhri Jagan Sridharan <Badhri@...gle.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Changelog since v1:
>>>> - fixed indentation
>>>>
>>>>    include/trace/events/irq.h | 5 ++++-
>>>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/trace/events/irq.h b/include/trace/events/irq.h
>>>> index ff8f6c0..dd8918c 100644
>>>> --- a/include/trace/events/irq.h
>>>> +++ b/include/trace/events/irq.h
>>>> @@ -58,14 +58,17 @@ TRACE_EVENT(irq_handler_entry,
>>>>    	TP_STRUCT__entry(
>>>>    		__field(	int,	irq		)
>>>>    		__string(	name,	action->name	)
>>>> +		__field(	void*,	handler		)
>>>
>>> Nit, you need a space between 'void' and '*'.
>>>
>>> -- Steve
>>>
>>>>    	),
>>>>
>>>>    	TP_fast_assign(
>>>>    		__entry->irq = irq;
>>>>    		__assign_str(name, action->name);
>>>> +		__entry->handler = action->handler;
>>>>    	),
>>>>
>>>> -	TP_printk("irq=%d name=%s", __entry->irq, __get_str(name))
>>>> +	TP_printk("irq=%d name=%s handler=%pf",
>>>> +		  __entry->irq, __get_str(name), __entry->handler)
>>>>    );
>>>>
>>>>    /**
>>>
>
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