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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Steven Rostedt' <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: [for-next][PATCH 12/17] fgraph: Make overruns 4 bytes in graph stack structure
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:18:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aabe0dd1fd7b46aaaadb2b34912b6718@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112003334.906341178@goodmis.org>

From: Steven Rostedt
> Sent: 12 November 2020 00:33
> 
> Inspecting the data structures of the function graph tracer, I found that
> the overrun value is unsigned long, which is 8 bytes on a 64 bit machine,
> and not only that, the depth is an int (4 bytes). The overrun can be simply
> an unsigned int (4 bytes) and pack the ftrace_graph_ret structure better.
> 
> The depth is moved up next to the func, as it is used more often with func,
> and improves cache locality.
...
>  } __packed;

Does this many any/much difference given that the structure is
marked __packed?

OTOH the __packed will (probably) kill performance on systems
that don't support mis-aligned accesses.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-12  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-12  0:32 [for-next][PATCH 00/17] tracing: Updates for 5.11 Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 01/17] ftrace: Move the recursion testing into global headers Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 02/17] ftrace: Add ftrace_test_recursion_trylock() helper function Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 03/17] ftrace: Optimize testing what context current is in Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 04/17] pstore/ftrace: Add recursion protection to the ftrace callback Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 05/17] kprobes/ftrace: " Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 06/17] livepatch/ftrace: " Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 07/17] livepatch: Trigger WARNING if livepatch function fails due to recursion Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 08/17] perf/ftrace: Add recursion protection to the ftrace callback Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 09/17] perf/ftrace: Check for rcu_is_watching() in callback function Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 10/17] ftrace: Reverse what the RECURSION flag means in the ftrace_ops Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 11/17] ftrace: Add recording of functions that caused recursion Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 12/17] fgraph: Make overruns 4 bytes in graph stack structure Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  9:18   ` David Laight [this message]
2020-11-12 14:39     ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 13/17] ftrace: Clean up the recursion code a bit Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 14/17] ring-buffer: Add recording of ring buffer recursion into recursed_functions Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:32 ` [for-next][PATCH 15/17] ftrace: Remove unused varible ret Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:33 ` [for-next][PATCH 16/17] tracing: Fix some typos in comments Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12  0:33 ` [for-next][PATCH 17/17] MAINTAINERS: assign ./fs/tracefs to TRACING Steven Rostedt

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