Re: start_kernel / local_irq_enable() can be very slow

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Nov 14 2005 - 10:43:01 EST




On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> You could do something like:
>
> int trace_irqs;
>
> trace_irqs = 1;
> local_irq_enble();
> trace_irqs = 0;

Do "trace_irqs = 10" first.

> then, over in handle_IRQ_event():
>
> if (trace_irqs)
> print_symbol("calling %s\n", (unsigned long)action->handler);

And decrement it here somewhere.

If it's delayed by up to three seconds, it sounds like there's a _lot_ of
interrupts happening, and I don't think there's any point in showing all
of them.

Linus
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