linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/branch-tracer: adapt to the stat tracing API

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901080925090.22642@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:25:28 -0500 (EST)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/branch-tracer: adapt to the stat tracing
 API


On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:49:49PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > 
> > > This patch adapts the branch tracer to the tracing API.
> > > This is not really for inclusion but more likely a proof of concept because
> > > the branch tracer implements two "stat tracing" that were split in two files.
> > > 
> > > So I added an option to the branch tracer: stat_all_branch.
> > > If it is set, then trace_stat will output all of the branches entries stats.
> > > Otherwise, it will print the annotated branches.
> > > 
> > > Its is a kind of quick trick, waiting for a better solution.
> > > By default, the annotated branches stat are sorted by incorrect branch prediction
> > > percentage.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, I have not had a chance to look at this code since it was sent when I 
> > was on Holiday. But I do not think that the only way to see the output of 
> > a histogram is to set it in the current_tracer. If I have the branch 
> > tracer on, I would have to run it to see the output of the histogram.
> > 
> > The histogram starts recording at boot up. Although the branch tracer is 
> > dependent on the histograms, the histogram is not dependent on the branch 
> > tracer. This code is making the histogram dependent on the trace. It took 
> > me a while to figure out how to see my histogram.
> > 
> > With the new patches (after the compile issue is solved) we could have a 
> > register_histogram or something that would put the file in the trace_stats 
> > directory. This would separate the need of coupling the tracers with the 
> > histogram even when they are not coupled.
> > 
> > -- Steve
> 
> You're right, that's a better and more scalable idea.
> Should I do it on top of the current patches (when the compile is fixed?).
> That will be more easy...

Yeah, that would be fine. Just make sure each patch works though.

Thanks,

-- Steve

--
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/