linux/kernel/trace
Frederic Weisbecker 0231022cc3 tracing/function-return-tracer: add the overrun field
Impact: help to find the better depth of trace

We decided to arbitrary define the depth of function return trace as
"20". Perhaps this is not enough. To help finding an optimal depth, we
measure now the overrun: the number of functions that have been missed
for the current thread. By default this is not displayed, we have to
do set a particular flag on the return tracer: echo overrun >
/debug/tracing/trace_options And the overrun will be printed on the
right.

As the trace shows below, the current 20 depth is not enough.

update_wall_time+0x37f/0x8c0 -> update_xtime_cache (345 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
update_wall_time+0x384/0x8c0 -> clocksource_get_next (1141 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
do_timer+0x23/0x100 -> update_wall_time (3882 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xbf/0x160 -> do_timer (5339 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
tick_sched_timer+0x6a/0xf0 -> tick_do_update_jiffies64 (7209 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
vgacon_set_cursor_size+0x98/0x120 -> native_io_delay (2613 ns) (Overruns: 274)
vgacon_cursor+0x16e/0x1d0 -> vgacon_set_cursor_size (33151 ns) (Overruns: 274)
set_cursor+0x5f/0x80 -> vgacon_cursor (36432 ns) (Overruns: 274)
con_flush_chars+0x34/0x40 -> set_cursor (38790 ns) (Overruns: 274)
release_console_sem+0x1ec/0x230 -> up (721 ns) (Overruns: 274)
release_console_sem+0x225/0x230 -> wake_up_klogd (316 ns) (Overruns: 274)
con_flush_chars+0x39/0x40 -> release_console_sem (2996 ns) (Overruns: 274)
con_write+0x22/0x30 -> con_flush_chars (46067 ns) (Overruns: 274)
n_tty_write+0x1cc/0x360 -> con_write (292670 ns) (Overruns: 274)
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x90 -> native_apic_mem_write (330 ns) (Overruns: 274)
irq_enter+0x17/0x70 -> idle_cpu (413 ns) (Overruns: 274)
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2f/0x90 -> irq_enter (1525 ns) (Overruns: 274)
ktime_get_ts+0x40/0x70 -> getnstimeofday (465 ns) (Overruns: 274)
ktime_get_ts+0x60/0x70 -> set_normalized_timespec (436 ns) (Overruns: 274)
ktime_get+0x16/0x30 -> ktime_get_ts (2501 ns) (Overruns: 274)
hrtimer_interrupt+0x77/0x1a0 -> ktime_get (3439 ns) (Overruns: 274)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 11:11:00 +01:00
..
ftrace.c Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/tracepoints' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-17 09:36:22 +01:00
Kconfig tracing/function-return-tracer: support for dynamic ftrace on function return tracer 2008-11-16 07:57:38 +01:00
Makefile ftrace: rename trace_unlikely.c file 2008-11-12 22:28:40 +01:00
ring_buffer.c Merge branches 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-16 07:28:46 +01:00
trace_boot.c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback 2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
trace_branch.c Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/tracepoints' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-17 09:36:22 +01:00
trace_functions_return.c tracing/function-return-tracer: add the overrun field 2008-11-18 11:11:00 +01:00
trace_functions.c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback 2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback 2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
trace_mmiotrace.c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback 2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
trace_nop.c tracing/ftrace: make nop tracer using tracer flags 2008-11-18 11:10:59 +01:00
trace_sched_switch.c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback 2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback 2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: fix dynamic ftrace selftest 2008-05-23 21:13:23 +02:00
trace_selftest.c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback 2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
trace_stack.c ftrace: insert in the ftrace_preempt_disable()/enable() functions 2008-11-04 10:09:49 +01:00
trace_sysprof.c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback 2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
trace.c tracing/function-return-tracer: add the overrun field 2008-11-18 11:11:00 +01:00
trace.h tracing/function-return-tracer: add the overrun field 2008-11-18 11:11:00 +01:00