linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] tracing: Have trace

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Message-ID: <20101118120626.GB27474@Krystal>
Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:06:26 -0500
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"jason.wessel" <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] tracing: Have trace_printk()s in the events/
	directory

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@...dmis.org) wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:41 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 22:58 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > For example, I added a trace_printk() in kernel/sched.c at line 2180
> > > and it creates:
> > > 
> > > # ls /debug/tracing/events/printk/kernel/sched.c/2180/
> > > enable  format
> > > 
> > > The format is the printk format:
> > > 
> > > # cat /debug/tracing/events/printk/kernel/sched.c/2180/format 
> > > "migrate task %s:%d"
> > 
> > *groan*, so you're creating a tracepoint per instance?
> > 
> > That's going to be massive pain for perf.. I really don't see the point
> > in splitting all that out.
> 
> a) The file directory was what was asked about in the referenced email.
> b) This is just an example of a way to display it to the user, which
> seems to be very intuitive.
> c) Perf can implement the details anyway it wants. It can make a single
> tracepoint callback and have the enabling of the points as a special
> filter.
> d) This was just an RFC that Frederic asked if I would do. I thought it
> would be a fun challenge and did it. Let it bit rot in hell for all I
> care, I wasn't taking it any further anyway.

Hi Steven,

The LTTng tree still keeps the "trace_mark()" kernel markers, which are
very very similar to ftrace_printk(). I'd be happy to combine the two
eventually. This one file per line approach seems very good -- rather than
explicitely naming each instance, as I did in trace_mark(), you end up
automatically naming them by file/line number.

How does this behave from within static inlines called multiple times and
unrolled loops ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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