Re: [PATCH v2] tracing/function-graph-tracer: prevent from hrtimerinterrupt infinite loop

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 18 2008 - 16:17:02 EST



* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hmm. No, I just tested by setting 1000 HZ and disabled NOHZ, the system
> doesn't lockup unless I turn on the function graph tracer.

but that's what we are interested in: the system locks up with HZ=1000 and
with the tracer on - right?

Which means that it's not some hrtimer problem, but simply the traced
timer tick takes more than 1 millisecond to execute under this
virtualization.

Ingo
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