linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RFC] ftrace: function oprofiler

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Message-ID: <c62985530810250351u40b671afg2fada687ee1d62f4@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:51:39 +0200
From:	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] ftrace: function oprofiler

Hi Steven,

2008/10/25 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>:
> # cat /debug/tracing/ftrace_profile | sort -brn | head -20
>   280075  : __rcu_read_unlock+0xb/0xa2
>   280065  : __rcu_read_lock+0x11/0xb3

The rcu function are on top of this profile. May be it's because you use
rcu when you touch your hash table.
Wouldn't be interesting to disable the counter adding for these
functions when they
are used at this time?

> +config FUNCTION_PROFILER
> +       bool "Trace max stack"

Copy-paste error? :-)
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