linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing/function-return-tracer: add the overrun field

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Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:11:45 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing/function-return-tracer: add the overrun
 field


On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > What would be needed is to make a per-arch stack call. Perhaps have 
> > a:
> > 
> >    arch_check_stack(&this_size, &max_stack_trace, &max_stack_size);
> > 
> > Where a weak function can be defined to return nothing. But the arch 
> > can check which stack the "this_size" variable is on and run the 
> > stack tracer against that stack.
> > 
> > Maybe we should have two stack traces, a stack_trace file and a 
> > stack_trace_irq ?
> > 
> > Because, some archs, like x86_64 have different size stacks. The 
> > thread stack is 8K where as the IRQ stack is 4K.  We may want to see 
> > which IRQ stack call is the worst, and not compare it to the thread 
> > stack call.
> 
> ... and on 64-bit x86 the IRQ stacks are 16K, and some of the IST 
> exception stacks have different sizes as well.

Heh, I expect that we will not support IRQ stacks until 2.6.30 or 31 :-/

-- Steve

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