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| author | Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2016-06-23 12:45:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2016-09-02 12:47:51 -0400 |
| commit | e7c15cd8a113335cf7154f027c9c8da1a92238ee (patch) | |
| tree | b6f7c3ac217af4203489e874c359c409d63f7c27 /kernel/trace/trace.h | |
| parent | 8861dd303cba879bae9a9dcee74042fb642bf03b (diff) | |
tracing: Added hardware latency tracer
The hardware latency tracer has been in the PREEMPT_RT patch for some time.
It is used to detect possible SMIs or any other hardware interruptions that
the kernel is unaware of. Note, NMIs may also be detected, but that may be
good to note as well.
The logic is pretty simple. It simply creates a thread that spins on a
single CPU for a specified amount of time (width) within a periodic window
(window). These numbers may be adjusted by their cooresponding names in
/sys/kernel/tracing/hwlat_detector/
The defaults are window = 1000000 us (1 second)
width = 500000 us (1/2 second)
The loop consists of:
t1 = trace_clock_local();
t2 = trace_clock_local();
Where trace_clock_local() is a variant of sched_clock().
The difference of t2 - t1 is recorded as the "inner" timestamp and also the
timestamp t1 - prev_t2 is recorded as the "outer" timestamp. If either of
these differences are greater than the time denoted in
/sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_thresh then it records the event.
When this tracer is started, and tracing_thresh is zero, it changes to the
default threshold of 10 us.
The hwlat tracer in the PREEMPT_RT patch was originally written by
Jon Masters. I have modified it quite a bit and turned it into a
tracer.
Based-on-code-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index f783df416726..1d866b0c1567 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ enum trace_type { TRACE_USER_STACK, TRACE_BLK, TRACE_BPUTS, + TRACE_HWLAT, __TRACE_LAST_TYPE, }; @@ -326,6 +327,7 @@ extern void __ftrace_bad_type(void); IF_ASSIGN(var, ent, struct print_entry, TRACE_PRINT); \ IF_ASSIGN(var, ent, struct bprint_entry, TRACE_BPRINT); \ IF_ASSIGN(var, ent, struct bputs_entry, TRACE_BPUTS); \ + IF_ASSIGN(var, ent, struct hwlat_entry, TRACE_HWLAT); \ IF_ASSIGN(var, ent, struct trace_mmiotrace_rw, \ TRACE_MMIO_RW); \ IF_ASSIGN(var, ent, struct trace_mmiotrace_map, \ @@ -571,6 +573,7 @@ void tracing_reset_current(int cpu); void tracing_reset_all_online_cpus(void); int tracing_open_generic(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp); bool tracing_is_disabled(void); +int tracer_tracing_is_on(struct trace_array *tr); struct dentry *trace_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, |