Re: [tip:timers/tracing] hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 03:10:15 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:18 +0000, tip-bot for Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>
> > +/**
> > + * hrtimer_start - called when the hrtimer is started
> > + * @timer: pointer to struct hrtimer
> > + */
> > +TRACE_EVENT(hrtimer_start,
> > +
> > + TP_PROTO(struct hrtimer *timer),
> > +
> > + TP_ARGS(timer),
> > +
> > + TP_STRUCT__entry(
> > + __field( void *, timer )
> > + __field( void *, function )
> > + __field( s64, expires )
> > + __field( s64, softexpires )
> > + ),
> > +
> > + TP_fast_assign(
> > + __entry->timer = timer;
> > + __entry->function = timer->function;
> > + __entry->expires = hrtimer_get_expires(timer).tv64;
> > + __entry->softexpires = hrtimer_get_softexpires(timer).tv64;
> > + ),
> > +
> > + TP_printk("hrtimer %p, func %pf, expires %llu, softexpires %llu",
> > + __entry->timer, __entry->function,
> > + (unsigned long long)ktime_to_ns((ktime_t) {
> > + .tv64 = __entry->expires }),
> > + (unsigned long long)ktime_to_ns((ktime_t) {
> > + .tv64 = __entry->softexpires }))
> > +);
> > +
>
> I was just fixing up the trace-cmd parser (which is also used for perf)
> and came across this code. That TP_printk shows up in the format file
> as:
>
> print fmt: "hrtimer %p, func %pf, expires %llu, softexpires %llu", REC->timer, REC->function, (unsigned long long)(((ktime_t) { .tv64 = REC->expires }).tv64), (unsigned long long)(((ktime_t) { .tv64 = REC->softexpires }).tv64)
>
> Now I'm trying to parse this with a tool so that we can have something
> that can read the binary output, and be able to easily figure it out by
> reading the format files. But trying to parse:
>
> (unsigned long long)(((ktime_t) { .tv64 = REC->expires }).tv64)
>
> Is not easy. It's basically implementing a C interpreter :-(

Btw., what i suggested quite some time ago was that we should bind
tracepoints by emitting C source code stubs, which tools can then build
and link in, using gcc.

Ingo
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