1. 26 Nov, 2008 3 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      tracing/function-return-tracer: set a more human readable output · 287b6e68
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Impact: feature
      
      This patch sets a C-like output for the function graph tracing.
      For this aim, we now call two handler for each function: one on the entry
      and one other on return. This way we can draw a well-ordered call stack.
      
      The pid of the previous trace is loosely stored to be compared against
      the one of the current trace to see if there were a context switch.
      
      Without this little feature, the call tree would seem broken at
      some locations.
      We could use the sched_tracer to capture these sched_events but this
      way of processing is much more simpler.
      
      2 spaces have been chosen for indentation to fit the screen while deep
      calls. The time of execution in nanosecs is printed just after closed
      braces, it seems more easy this way to find the corresponding function.
      If the time was printed as a first column, it would be not so easy to
      find the corresponding function if it is called on a deep depth.
      
      I plan to output the return value but on 32 bits CPU, the return value
      can be 32 or 64, and its difficult to guess on which case we are.
      I don't know what would be the better solution on X86-32: only print
      eax (low-part) or even edx (high-part).
      
      Actually it's thee same problem when a function return a 8 bits value, the
      high part of eax could contain junk values...
      
      Here is an example of trace:
      
      sys_read() {
        fget_light() {
        } 526
        vfs_read() {
          rw_verify_area() {
            security_file_permission() {
              cap_file_permission() {
              } 519
            } 1564
          } 2640
          do_sync_read() {
            pipe_read() {
              __might_sleep() {
              } 511
              pipe_wait() {
                prepare_to_wait() {
                } 760
                deactivate_task() {
                  dequeue_task() {
                    dequeue_task_fair() {
                      dequeue_entity() {
                        update_curr() {
                          update_min_vruntime() {
                          } 504
                        } 1587
                        clear_buddies() {
                        } 512
                        add_cfs_task_weight() {
                        } 519
                        update_min_vruntime() {
                        } 511
                      } 5602
                      dequeue_entity() {
                        update_curr() {
                          update_min_vruntime() {
                          } 496
                        } 1631
                        clear_buddies() {
                        } 496
                        update_min_vruntime() {
                        } 527
                      } 4580
                      hrtick_update() {
                        hrtick_start_fair() {
                        } 488
                      } 1489
                    } 13700
                  } 14949
                } 16016
                msecs_to_jiffies() {
                } 496
                put_prev_task_fair() {
                } 504
                pick_next_task_fair() {
                } 489
                pick_next_task_rt() {
                } 496
                pick_next_task_fair() {
                } 489
                pick_next_task_idle() {
                } 489
      
      ------------8<---------- thread 4 ------------8<----------
      
      finish_task_switch() {
      } 1203
      do_softirq() {
        __do_softirq() {
          __local_bh_disable() {
          } 669
          rcu_process_callbacks() {
            __rcu_process_callbacks() {
              cpu_quiet() {
                rcu_start_batch() {
                } 503
              } 1647
            } 3128
            __rcu_process_callbacks() {
            } 542
          } 5362
          _local_bh_enable() {
          } 587
        } 8880
      } 9986
      kthread_should_stop() {
      } 669
      deactivate_task() {
        dequeue_task() {
          dequeue_task_fair() {
            dequeue_entity() {
              update_curr() {
                calc_delta_mine() {
                } 511
                update_min_vruntime() {
                } 511
              } 2813
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      287b6e68
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      tracing/function-return-tracer: change the name into function-graph-tracer · fb52607a
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Impact: cleanup
      
      This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into
      function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing
      which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during
      the code flow.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      fb52607a
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
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