From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Jennifer Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] xen: trace IRQ enabling/disabling
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 18:11:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1496938276.9462.35.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6629d7b1-527a-e95c-680b-787f53439bdf@citrix.com>
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On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 17:01 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 01/06/17 18:34, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > diff --git a/xen/Kconfig.debug b/xen/Kconfig.debug
> > index 374c1c0..81910c9 100644
> > --- a/xen/Kconfig.debug
> > +++ b/xen/Kconfig.debug
> > @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ config PERF_ARRAYS
> > ---help---
> > Enables software performance counter array histograms.
> >
> > -config TRACING
> > +menuconfig TRACING
> > bool "Tracing"
> > default y
> > ---help---
> > @@ -106,6 +106,15 @@ config TRACING
> > in per-CPU ring buffers. The 'xentrace' tool can be used
> > to read
> > the buffers and dump the content on the disk.
> >
> > +config TRACE_IRQSOFF
> > + bool "Trace when IRQs are disabled and (re)enabled" if
> > EXPERT = "y"
> > + default n
> > + depends on TRACING
> > + ---help---
> > + Makes it possible to generate events _every_ time IRQs
> > are disabled
> > + and (re)enabled, with also an indication of where that
> > happened.
> > + Note that this comes with high overead and produces huge
> > amount of
> > + tracing data.
>
> I think I might emphasize that the overhead well be present even when
> tracing is off. What about something like this?
>
Yes, good point.
> "Note that this comes with an overhead even when tracing is disabled;
> and has a high overhead and produces a large amount of tracing data
> when
> enabled."
>
I like it, I'll go for it.
> With that change:
>
> Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
>
Thanks and Regards,
Dario
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-01 17:33 [PATCH 00/15] xen/tools: add tracing to various Xen subsystems Dario Faggioli
2017-06-01 17:33 ` [PATCH 01/15] xen: in do_softirq() sample smp_processor_id() once and for all Dario Faggioli
2017-06-07 14:38 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-08 14:12 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-08 14:20 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-08 14:42 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-01 17:33 ` [PATCH 02/15] xen: tracing: avoid checking tb_init_done multiple times Dario Faggioli
2017-06-01 17:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-01 23:08 ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-07 14:46 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 15:55 ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-07 16:06 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-08 14:34 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-08 14:37 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-01 17:33 ` [PATCH 03/15] xen/tools: tracing: several improvements on IRQs tracing Dario Faggioli
2017-06-01 18:02 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-01 23:12 ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-07 15:05 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 15:45 ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-07 15:58 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-08 14:53 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-08 15:34 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-08 14:59 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-01 17:34 ` [PATCH 04/15] tools: xenalyze: fix dumping of PM_IDLE events Dario Faggioli
2017-06-08 15:06 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-01 17:34 ` [PATCH 05/15] xen: make it possible to disable tracing in Kconfig Dario Faggioli
2017-06-01 18:43 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-07 11:01 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-07 15:14 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-08 15:16 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-08 15:35 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-08 15:37 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-08 15:44 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-08 15:17 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-01 17:34 ` [PATCH 06/15] xen: trace IRQ enabling/disabling Dario Faggioli
2017-06-01 19:08 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-01 23:42 ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-08 15:51 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-08 16:05 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 11:16 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-07 15:22 ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-09 10:51 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-09 10:53 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-09 10:55 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-09 11:00 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-08 16:01 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-08 16:11 ` Dario Faggioli [this message]
2017-06-09 10:41 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-01 17:34 ` [PATCH 07/15] tools: tracing: handle IRQs on/off events in xentrace and xenalyze Dario Faggioli
2017-06-13 15:58 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-01 17:34 ` [PATCH 08/15] xen: trace RCU behavior Dario Faggioli
2017-06-09 10:48 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-13 16:05 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-01 17:34 ` [PATCH 09/15] tools: tracing: handle RCU events in xentrace and xenalyze Dario Faggioli
2017-06-13 16:12 ` George Dunlap
2017-06-01 17:34 ` [PATCH 10/15] xen: trace softirqs Dario Faggioli
2017-06-09 10:51 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-01 17:34 ` [PATCH 11/15] tools: tracing: handle RCU events in xentrace and xenalyze Dario Faggioli
2017-06-01 17:35 ` [PATCH 12/15] xen: trace tasklets Dario Faggioli
2017-06-09 10:59 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-09 11:17 ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-09 11:29 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-01 17:35 ` [PATCH 13/15] tools: tracing: handle tasklets events in xentrace and xenalyze Dario Faggioli
2017-06-01 17:35 ` [PATCH 14/15] xen: trace timers Dario Faggioli
2017-06-01 17:35 ` [PATCH 15/15] tools: tracing: handle timers events in xentrace and xenalyze Dario Faggioli
2017-06-07 14:13 ` [PATCH 00/15] xen/tools: add tracing to various Xen subsystems Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-08 16:45 ` Dario Faggioli
2017-06-13 16:34 ` George Dunlap
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