without this the idle routine still gets traced.. This is done already for ACPI idle , but it should also be done for other idle routines. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker --- arch/i386/kernel/process.c | 9 +++++++++ arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/i386/kernel/process.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/i386/kernel/process.c +++ linux-2.6.22/arch/i386/kernel/process.c @@ -197,8 +197,17 @@ void cpu_idle(void) if (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) play_dead(); + /* + * We have irqs disabled here, so stop latency tracing + * at this point and restart it after we return: + */ + stop_critical_timing(); + __get_cpu_var(irq_stat).idle_timestamp = jiffies; idle(); + + touch_critical_timing(); + } local_irq_disable(); trace_preempt_exit_idle(); Index: linux-2.6.22/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c +++ linux-2.6.22/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c @@ -223,8 +223,18 @@ void cpu_idle (void) * Otherwise, idle callbacks can misfire. */ local_irq_disable(); + + /* + * We have irqs disabled here, so stop latency tracing + * at this point and restart it after we return: + */ + stop_critical_timing(); + enter_idle(); idle(); + + touch_critical_timing(); + /* In many cases the interrupt that ended idle has already called exit_idle. But some idle loops can be woken up without interrupt. */ -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/