Re: [RFC PATCH] ftrace function-graph: print the function name on all } lines

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Fri, 2 May 2014 19:11:11 +0000
"Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott@hp.com> wrote:

> Using ftrace function-graph to examine the times consumed by
> functions, the time shows up on the line where the call is made
> if no other traceable functions were called by that function:
>  11)   0.672 us    |    cmd_alloc [hpsa]();
> 
> but the time shows up down by the } if the were other traceable
> functions called by that function:
>  11)               |              cmd_alloc [hpsa]() {
>  11)   0.129 us    |                cmd_free [hpsa]();
>  11)   0.106 us    |                cmd_free [hpsa]();
>  11)   2.014 us    |              }
> 
> On its own, the } line doesn't indicate which function it is
> closing, so grep cannot be used to search for all the times
> for this function. You have to write a parser.
> 
> The function name does get printed on those lines when the
> start of the function is off the trace, so I modified 
> trace_functions_graph.c to do that in all cases.
> 
>  11)               |    hpsa_scsi_ioaccel_raid_map [hpsa]() {
>  11)               |      hpsa_scsi_ioaccel_queue_command [hpsa]() {
>  11)               |        hpsa_scsi_ioaccel2_queue_command [hpsa]() {
>  11)   0.067 us    |          fixup_ioaccel_cdb [hpsa]();
>  11)   0.053 us    |          set_encrypt_ioaccel2 [hpsa]();
>  11)   0.199 us    |          enqueue_cmd_and_start_io [hpsa]();
>  11)   1.952 us    |        } /* hpsa_scsi_ioaccel2_queue_command [hpsa] */
>  11)   2.501 us    |      } /* hpsa_scsi_ioaccel_queue_command [hpsa] */
>  11)   3.093 us    |    } /* hpsa_scsi_ioaccel_raid_map [hpsa] */
>  11)   4.667 us    |  } /* hpsa_scsi_queue_command [hpsa] */
> 
> rather than:
>  11)               |    hpsa_scsi_ioaccel_raid_map [hpsa]() {
>  11)               |      hpsa_scsi_ioaccel_queue_command [hpsa]() {
>  11)               |        hpsa_scsi_ioaccel2_queue_command [hpsa]() {
>  11)   0.067 us    |          fixup_ioaccel_cdb [hpsa]();
>  11)   0.053 us    |          set_encrypt_ioaccel2 [hpsa]();
>  11)   0.199 us    |          enqueue_cmd_and_start_io [hpsa]();
>  11)   1.952 us    |        }
>  11)   2.501 us    |      }
>  11)   3.093 us    |    }
>  11)   4.667 us    |  }
> 
> Is this a change you would be interested in taking, or
> do you think that makes the output too cluttered?

Yes it is too cluttered. Please make this a tracing option that is
default off.

Thanks,

-- Steve

> 
> A potential patch (based on kernel-3.14) is:
>