Re: [PATCH] Bootgraph.pl bug fix

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Jun 10 2011 - 09:00:44 EST


On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Andrew Murray wrote:

> This patch removes the assumption of the bootgraph.pl script that the
> timing information reported by PRINTK_TIME will contain at least one
> entry with a time of less than 100 seconds.
>
> Not all boards correctly reset the system timer and in many cases the
> inital times reported by PRINTK_TIME is high. When this occurs the
> bootchart.pl script fails to give any useful output.
>
> This patch sets the $firsttime variable to the largest value expected
> by PRINTK_TIME
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/bootgraph.pl | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/bootgraph.pl b/scripts/bootgraph.pl
> index 12caa82..b78fca9 100644
> --- a/scripts/bootgraph.pl
> +++ b/scripts/bootgraph.pl
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ my %end;
> my %type;
> my $done = 0;
> my $maxtime = 0;
> -my $firsttime = 100;
> +my $firsttime = 99999;
> my $count = 0;
> my %pids;
> my %pidctr;

Adding Arjan to CC. Arjan, if you are OK with the patch, I can take it
through my tree with your Ack.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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