Re: [Patch 2/2] tracepoints for softirq entry/exit - tracepoints

[Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>]

* Jason Baron (jbaron@redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> introduce softirq entry/exit tracepoints. These are useful for
> augmenting existing tracers, and to figure out softirq frequencies and
> timings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
> 
> ---
> 
>  include/trace/irq_event_types.h |   12 ++++++++++++
>  kernel/softirq.c                |    7 ++++++-
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/include/trace/irq_event_types.h b/include/trace/irq_event_types.h
> index 214bb92..38b4bdd 100644
> --- a/include/trace/irq_event_types.h
> +++ b/include/trace/irq_event_types.h
> @@ -40,4 +40,16 @@ TRACE_EVENT(irq_handler_exit,
>  		  __entry->irq, __entry->ret ? "handled" : "unhandled")
>  );
>  
> +TRACE_FORMAT(irq_softirq_entry,
> +	TP_PROTO(struct softirq_action *h, struct softirq_action *vec),
> +	TP_ARGS(h, vec),
> +	TP_FMT("softirq=%d action=%s", h - vec, softirq_to_name[h-vec])
> +	);
> +
> +TRACE_FORMAT(irq_softirq_exit,
> +	TP_PROTO(struct softirq_action *h, struct softirq_action *vec),
> +	TP_ARGS(h, vec),
> +	TP_FMT("softirq=%d action=%s", h - vec, softirq_to_name[h-vec])

The softirq tracepoints are a good idea indeed (I have similar ones in
the LTTng tree). My main concern is about the fact that you output the
softirq name in plain text to the trace buffers. I would rather prefer
to save only the softirq (h-vec) into the trace and dump the mapping
(h-vec) to name only once, so we can save precious trace bytes.

Mathieu

> +	);
> +
>  #undef TRACE_SYSTEM
> diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
> index ba1511f..c378d53 100644
> --- a/kernel/softirq.c
> +++ b/kernel/softirq.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #include <linux/ftrace.h>
>  #include <linux/smp.h>
>  #include <linux/tick.h>
> +#include <trace/irq.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/irq.h>
>  /*
> @@ -186,6 +187,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip);
>   */
>  #define MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART 10
>  
> +DEFINE_TRACE(irq_softirq_entry);
> +DEFINE_TRACE(irq_softirq_exit);
> +
>  asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
>  {
>  	struct softirq_action *h;
> @@ -212,8 +216,9 @@ restart:
>  		if (pending & 1) {
>  			int prev_count = preempt_count();
>  
> +			trace_irq_softirq_entry(h, softirq_vec);
>  			h->action(h);
> -
> +			trace_irq_softirq_exit(h, softirq_vec);
>  			if (unlikely(prev_count != preempt_count())) {
>  				printk(KERN_ERR "huh, entered softirq %td %s %p"
>  				       "with preempt_count %08x,"
> 

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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