Re: [PATCH 1/3] ftrace: add tracepoint for timer

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Fri, 22 May 2009, Xiao Guangrong wrote:

> This patch is modify from Mathieu's patch base on ingo's suggestion, the original patch
> can be found here: 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123791201816247&w=2

  I have a hard time to connect this patch to the original one.
 
> +TRACE_EVENT(timer_start,
> +
> +	TP_PROTO(struct timer_list *timer, int cpu),
> +
> +	TP_ARGS(timer, cpu),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__field( void *,	timer		)
> +		__field( void *,	function	)
> +		__field( unsigned long,	expires		)
> +		__field( int,		cpu		)
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_fast_assign(
> +		__entry->timer		= timer;
> +		__entry->function	= timer->function;
> +		__entry->expires	= timer->expires;
> +		__entry->cpu		= cpu;
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_printk("timer=%p func=%pf expires=%lu cpu=%d", __entry->timer,
> +		  __entry->function, __entry->expires, __entry->cpu)
> +);

  How do we connect the trace to the jiffies value when the timer
  was started ?

> +
> +TRACE_EVENT(timer_expire,
> +
> +	TP_PROTO(struct timer_list *timer),
> +
> +	TP_ARGS(timer),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__field( void *,	timer		)
> +		__field( void *,        function	)
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_fast_assign(
> +		__entry->timer		= timer;
> +		__entry->function       = timer->function;
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_printk("timer=%p func=%pf", __entry->timer, __entry->function)
> +);

  Ditto.

> +TRACE_EVENT(timer_cancel,
> +
> +	TP_PROTO(struct timer_list *timer),
> +
> +	TP_ARGS(timer),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__field( void *,	timer		)
> +		__field( void *,        function        )
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_fast_assign(
> +		__entry->timer		= timer;
> +		__entry->function	= timer->function;
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_printk("timer=%p func=%pf", __entry->timer, __entry->function)
> +);

  Same here.

> @@ -547,6 +550,7 @@ void init_timer_key(struct timer_list *timer,
>  {
>  	debug_timer_init(timer);
>  	__init_timer(timer, name, key);
> +	trace_timer_init(timer);

  Can we please avoid to have two debug calls in one 2 line function ?

>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_timer_key);
>  
> @@ -565,6 +569,7 @@ static inline void detach_timer(struct timer_list *timer,
>  	struct list_head *entry = &timer->entry;
>  
>  	debug_timer_deactivate(timer);
> +	trace_timer_cancel(timer);

  Ditto. Please create one debug entity which covers both.

  ....

Thanks,

	tglx