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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Frederic Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Abderrahmane Benbachir" <abderrahmane.benbachir@polymtl.ca>,
	"Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] [RFC] init, tracing: Add initcall trace events
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:50:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180323125016.270ea1558fe2499b1a12bfd7@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180323150241.878778199@goodmis.org>

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:02:41 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> A while ago we had a boot tracer. But it was eventually removed:
>  commit 30dbb20e68e6f ("tracing: Remove boot tracer").
> 
> The rational was because there is already a initcall_debug boot option
> that causes printk()s of all the initcall functions.

"rationale" :)

> The problem with the initcall_debug option is that printk() is awfully slow,
> and makes it difficult to see the real impact of initcalls. Mainly because
> a single printk() is usually slower than most initcall functions.

Not understanding this.  We do it correctly:

	calltime = ktime_get();
	ret = fn();
	rettime = ktime_get();

so the displayed initcall timing is independent of the printk()
execution time?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-23 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-23 15:02 [PATCH 0/3] [RFC] init, tracing: Add initcall trace events Steven Rostedt
2018-03-23 15:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] init: Fix initcall0 name as it is "pure" not "early" Steven Rostedt
2018-03-23 15:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] init, tracing: Add initcall trace events Steven Rostedt
2018-03-23 15:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] init, tracing: instrument security and console " Steven Rostedt
2018-03-23 19:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-03-23 20:04   ` [PATCH 0/3] [RFC] init, tracing: Add " Steven Rostedt
2018-03-26  8:42     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-26 14:34       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-26 17:47 ` [PATCH 4/3] init, tracing: Have printk come through the trace events for initcall_debug Steven Rostedt
2018-03-27  1:50 ` [PATCH 0/3] [RFC] init, tracing: Add initcall trace events Joel Fernandes (Google)
2018-03-27  3:02   ` Steven Rostedt

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