Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: add latency format to function_graphtracer

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Fri Sep 11 2009 - 11:45:14 EST


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 06:38:10PM +0300, Török Edwin wrote:
> On 2009-09-11 18:18, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:11:56AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 16:55 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Oh, BTW, what would you think about addding the current->lock_depth
> >>> in the latency format? That may help debug the bkl...
> >>>
> >> Hmm, that would require adding another field for all traces. I don't
> >> want to increase the size of an entry unneeded. BTW, this is for all
> >> entries (even events).
> >>
> >
> >
> > Right...
> >
> >
> >
> >> Ug! I just noticed that tgid was added to struct trace_entry, with the
> >> only user as the user stack entry. This should be in the user stack
> >> field not something that goes into every event!
> >>
> >> I guess I need to fix that too.
> >>
>
> Indeed tgid should be part of struct userstack_entry, and set in
> ftrace_trace_userstack.
> Do you want to me to write up a patch for that, or have you already
> fixed it?
>
> Best regards,
> --Edwin


No, please do.

Thanks!

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