[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <xhsmhh6jfhr1j.mognet@vschneid-thinkpadt14sgen2i.remote.csb>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:41:44 +0100
From: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
To: Yong-Xuan Wang <yongxuan.wang@...ive.com>, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: greentime.hu@...ive.com, vincent.chen@...ive.com, Yong-Xuan Wang
<yongxuan.wang@...ive.com>, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>, Atish
Patra <atishp@...osinc.com>, Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@...ive.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] RISC-V: add IPI tracepoints
On 15/01/24 07:12, Yong-Xuan Wang wrote:
> The strings used to list IPIs in /proc/interrupts are reused for tracing
> purposes. Also slightly clean up the code by removing send_ipi_single().
>
So this is adding trace events for sending & receiving IPIs.
Regarding reception, AFAICT arm/arm64 had that historically because IPIs
were handled directly by the irqchip (see rambling on the first part of the
cover letter at [1]), but now that this is no longer the case they are
obsolete: they show up in trace_irq_handler* events.
I don't know riscv IRQ handling, but riscv_ipi_set_virq_range() looks
awfully similar to arm64's set_smp_ipi_range() and does a "proper"
request_percpu_irq() for handle_IPI(). So if one wants a trace footprint of
IPI reception, there already is infrastructure for it.
Regarding sending IPIs, there now is trace_ipi_send_cpu{mask} which is in
the core kernel and thus benefits all architectures, though it
only covers IPI_RESCHEDULE, IPI_CALL_FUNC and IPI_IRQ_WORK.
Long story short, I know the ipi_raise and ipi_{entry_exit} TPs already
exist and we can't remove them, but IMO they're not that helpful because
they just give a string rather than an actual function pointer, *and* they
have to be manually added to the right place in each architecture. I'd
rather see trace_ipi_send_cpu{mask} extended to cover the missing cases.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230307143558.294354-1-vschneid@redhat.com/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists