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Message-ID: <4A1D07C8.6010002@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:28:40 +0800
From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
CC: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
mingo@...e.hu, tzanussi@...il.com, jbaron@...hat.com,
tglx@...utronix.de, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/events: Add timer and high res timer tracepoints
Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:26:43PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>> Add tracepoints for timer and high res timer execution. We add entry and
>> exit tracepoints so we can calculate timer latency.
>
>
> Your work looks very similar to Xiao Guangrong's patches.
>
> See:
>
> ftrace: add tracepoint for timer
> ftrace: add tracepoint for itimer
> ftrace: add tracepoint for hrimer
>
> I'm not sure which one should be picked between
> his patches and yours.
>
Hi Frederic:
In fact, Anton Blanchard's is different from my patch.
My patch is used for trace timer lifecycle(init/start/expire/cancel), and his
patch is mostly used for trace the execution time of timer function.
Thanks,
Xiao Guangrong
> Frederic.
>
>
>> Example ftrace output:
>>
>> <idle>-0 [000] 264.040506: hrtimer_entry: func=.tick_sched_timer
>> <idle>-0 [000] 264.040508: hrtimer_exit: func=.tick_sched_timer restart=HRTIMER_RESTART
>> <idle>-0 [000] 264.040530: timer_entry: func=.e1000_watchdog
>> <idle>-0 [000] 264.040728: timer_exit: func=.e1000_watchdog
>>
>> Here we can see e1000_watchdog is taking 0.2ms - it might make sense to
>> move this into a workqueue or kernel thread.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
>> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>> ---
>>
>> v2: Changed %pF to %pf to remove always 0 function offset.
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6-master/kernel/hrtimer.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6-master.orig/kernel/hrtimer.c 2009-05-26 12:55:35.000000000 +1000
>> +++ linux-2.6-master/kernel/hrtimer.c 2009-05-26 13:09:55.000000000 +1000
>> @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
>>
>> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
>>
>> +#include <trace/events/timer.h>
>> +
>> /**
>> * ktime_get - get the monotonic time in ktime_t format
>> *
>> @@ -1161,7 +1163,9 @@
>> * the timer base.
>> */
>> spin_unlock(&cpu_base->lock);
>> + trace_hrtimer_entry(timer);
>> restart = fn(timer);
>> + trace_hrtimer_exit(timer, restart);
>> spin_lock(&cpu_base->lock);
>>
>> /*
>> Index: linux-2.6-master/kernel/timer.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6-master.orig/kernel/timer.c 2009-05-26 12:55:35.000000000 +1000
>> +++ linux-2.6-master/kernel/timer.c 2009-05-26 13:09:55.000000000 +1000
>> @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
>> #include <asm/timex.h>
>> #include <asm/io.h>
>>
>> +#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
>> +#include <trace/events/timer.h>
>> +
>> u64 jiffies_64 __cacheline_aligned_in_smp = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
>>
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies_64);
>> @@ -947,7 +950,9 @@
>> */
>> lock_map_acquire(&lockdep_map);
>>
>> + trace_timer_entry(timer);
>> fn(data);
>> + trace_timer_exit(timer);
>>
>> lock_map_release(&lockdep_map);
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6-master/include/trace/events/timer.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
>> +++ linux-2.6-master/include/trace/events/timer.h 2009-05-26 13:57:42.000000000 +1000
>> @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
>> +#if !defined(_TRACE_TIMER_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
>> +#define _TRACE_TIMER_H
>> +
>> +#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
>> +#include <linux/timer.h>
>> +#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
>> +
>> +#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
>> +#define TRACE_SYSTEM timer
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * timer_entry - called immediately before the timer
>> + * @timer: pointer to struct timer_list
>> + *
>> + * When used in combination with the timer_exit tracepoint we can
>> + * determine the timer latency.
>> + */
>> +TRACE_EVENT(timer_entry,
>> +
>> + TP_PROTO(struct timer_list *timer),
>> +
>> + TP_ARGS(timer),
>> +
>> + TP_STRUCT__entry(
>> + __field(void *, function)
>> + ),
>> +
>> + TP_fast_assign(
>> + __entry->function = timer->function;
>> + ),
>> +
>> + TP_printk("func=%pf", __entry->function)
>> +);
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * timer_exit - called immediately after the timer returns
>> + * @timer: pointer to struct timer_list
>> + *
>> + * When used in combination with the timer_entry tracepoint we can
>> + * determine the timer latency.
>> + */
>> +TRACE_EVENT(timer_exit,
>> +
>> + TP_PROTO(struct timer_list *timer),
>> +
>> + TP_ARGS(timer),
>> +
>> + TP_STRUCT__entry(
>> + __field(void *, function)
>> + ),
>> +
>> + TP_fast_assign(
>> + __entry->function = timer->function;
>> + ),
>> +
>> + TP_printk("func=%pf", __entry->function)
>> +);
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * hrtimer_entry - called immediately before the high res timer
>> + * @timer: pointer to struct hrtimer
>> + *
>> + * When used in combination with the hrtimer_exit tracepoint we can
>> + * determine the high res timer latency.
>> + */
>> +TRACE_EVENT(hrtimer_entry,
>> +
>> + TP_PROTO(struct hrtimer *timer),
>> +
>> + TP_ARGS(timer),
>> +
>> + TP_STRUCT__entry(
>> + __field(void *, function)
>> + ),
>> +
>> + TP_fast_assign(
>> + __entry->function = timer->function;
>> + ),
>> +
>> + TP_printk("func=%pf", __entry->function)
>> +);
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * hrtimer_exit - called immediately after the high res timer returns
>> + * @timer: pointer to struct hrtimer
>> + * @restart: high res timer return value
>> + *
>> + * High res timer will restart if @restart is set to HRTIMER_RESTART.
>> + * When used in combination with the hrtimer_entry tracepoint we can
>> + * determine the high res timer latency.
>> + */
>> +TRACE_EVENT(hrtimer_exit,
>> +
>> + TP_PROTO(struct hrtimer *timer, int restart),
>> +
>> + TP_ARGS(timer, restart),
>> +
>> + TP_STRUCT__entry(
>> + __field(void *, function) + __field(int, restart)
>> + ),
>> +
>> + TP_fast_assign(
>> + __entry->function = timer->function;
>> + __entry->restart = restart;
>> + ),
>> +
>> + TP_printk("func=%pf restart=%s", __entry->function,
>> + (__entry->restart == HRTIMER_RESTART) ?
>> + "HRTIMER_RESTART" : "HRTIMER_NORESTART")
>> +);
>> +
>> +#endif /* _TRACE_TIMER_H */
>> +
>> +/* This part must be outside protection */
>> +#include <trace/define_trace.h>
>
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