Re: [PATCH 1/2] trace,x86: Add tracepoint to x86 timer interrupt handler

[Vaibhav Nagarnaik]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Vaibhav Nagarnaik wrote:
>
>> The x86 timer interrupt handler is the only handler not traced in the
>> irq/irq_handler_{entry|exit} trace events.
>
> Nonsense. The timer irq (irq0) comes via the genirq interrupt handling
> and not via a special vector. So it's traced already.
>

Thanks for pointing it out, I confused the PIT/HPET for the local timer
vector.

Could you also take a look at the patches that add tracing for traps?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/3/455
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/3/456



Vaibhav Nagarnaik
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