Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing/function-graph-tracer: signal interruptsentry/exit points on outpout

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Dec 08 2008 - 01:19:55 EST


On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 01:54 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Impact: provide interrupt detection on output
>
> Suggested by Ingo.
> If a hardirq is raised, we want it to be signaled on output, so this patch
> adds two arrows on the output to find entry and exit points of a hardirq.
>
> Unfortunately, there are many interrupt entrypoints and these can be differents
> from one arch to another.
>
> The approach here is one of the easiest, but doesn't shine by its scalability:
> we have an array of the interrupt entrypoints names that we compare with the
> symbol of the current traced function, if it matches, we draw the arrow.
>
> Ie:
>
> 1) | unlock_buffer() {
> 1) | wake_up_bit() {
> 1) | bit_waitqueue() {
> 1) 0.872 us | __phys_addr();
> 1) 2.722 us | }
> 1) | __wake_up_bit() {
> 1) ==> __wake_up_bit() {
> 1) | do_IRQ() {

Would be much nicer, the current proposal is lost when grepping and adds
a weird visual break in the output.

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