linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] trace-cmd profile enhancements

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

Message-ID: <20150508161309.0f520772@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Fri, 8 May 2015 16:13:09 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] trace-cmd profile enhancements

On Fri, 8 May 2015 15:28:59 -0400
Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com> wrote:

> I had to use trace-cmd profile to debug a regression with hhvm recently.  These
> are the patches I needed to make trace-cmd profile useful to me.  There are a
> few changes in here
> 
> 1) Adding --merge to trace-cmd profile.  This merges events for like comms
> together.  HHVM is a huge app that spawns worker threads to handle requests, I
> needed all of this data in one place to see how the app as a whole was behaving,
> --merge provides this.
> 
> 2) Fixup the output formatting.  I also wanted to see which syscalls were taking
> the longest but this was hard because we were just spitting out the syscall
> number and it wasn't in any order, so now all the events are ordered based on
> time taken and the syscall names are printed instead of the number.
> 
> 3) Random trace-cmd hist fix, because it didn't work right with instances.
> 
> I've been using these in production for a couple of weeks now and they seem to
> work well.  Thanks,
>

Josef,

Thanks a lot! I really appreciate this.

I'll take a look at it next week as I have other things on my plate for
today. Ping me if I somehow forget to do so.

Thanks again,

-- 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/