Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] ftrace: add tracepoint for timer

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Changelog v1->v2:
> 1: Add jiffies info into timer
> 2: Combine debugobjects and trace as Thomas's suggestion

I like it that way. Some minor nitpicks below.
 
> +TRACE_EVENT(timer_expire,
> +
> +	TP_PROTO(struct timer_list *timer),
> +
> +	TP_ARGS(timer),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__field( void *,	timer		)
> +		__field( void *,	function	)

  Do we really need the function here? It does not change between
  start and expiry.

> +TRACE_EVENT(timer_cancel,
> +
> +	TP_PROTO(struct timer_list *timer),
> +
> +	TP_ARGS(timer),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__field( void *,	timer		)
> +		__field( void *,	function	)

  Ditto.

> +
> +static inline void debug_and_trace_timer_expire(struct timer_list *timer)

  Technically not really necessary. The debug code does not care about
  it.

>  			timer = list_first_entry(head, struct timer_list,entry);
> +			debug_and_trace_timer_expire(timer);
>  			fn = timer->function;
>  			data = timer->data;
>  

Can you please add the tracepoint which was suggested by Anton (IIRC)
which allows us to measure the execution time of the callback function
? There is no need to dereference timer in the expiry tracepoint, we
just store the pointer. So we can safely move the tracepoints just
around the function call.

   trace_timer_expire(timer);
   fn(data);
   trace_timer_callback_done(timer);

Or whatever fancy name you come up with.

Thanks,

	tglx