Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc2-mm1-S1

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Sep 19 2004 - 15:47:57 EST


* Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just 1 small correction:
> >>>>
> --- kernel/time.c~ 2004-09-19 15:09:38.000000000 +0200
> +++ kernel/time.c 2004-09-19 17:02:35.000000000 +0200
> @@ -96,8 +96,10 @@
> asmlinkage long sys_gettimeofday(struct timeval __user *tv, struct timezone
> __user *tz)
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_LATENCY_TRACE
> - if (!tv && ((long)tz == 1))
> + if (!tv && ((long)tz == 1)) {
> user_trace_start();
> + tz = NULL;
> + }
> if (!tv && !tz)
> user_trace_stop();

The point is to let gettimeofday(0,1) start tracing and
gettimeofday(0,0) stop tracing - a system-call-controlled tracing
facility (if trace_enabled=2). This was used to trace weird latencies
before, but it's not the normal mode of operation.

Ingo
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