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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:37:58 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [Announce] Development release 0.1 of the LatencyTOP tool II On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 06:33:30AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > another thing that the current profiling can't do, is to show what the > > system is doing > > when it hits the latency.. so someone calling fsync() will show up in the > > waiting for > > IO function, but not that it was due to an fsync(). > > Hmm so how about extending oprofile to always log the syscall number > in the event logs (can be gotten from top of stack). I think given Ok to handle exceptions like page faults this way you would need to save the vector somewhere on entry, but that shouldn't be very costly or difficult and could probably even be done unconditionally. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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