Re: [PATCH] tracing: mark get_parent_ip() notrace

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Apr 13 2009 - 20:12:26 EST



* Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:17 +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 02:18:25PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > >> Impact: remove redundancy tracing log
> > >>
> > >> When tracer is "function" or "function_graph", too much
> > >> "get_parent_ip" are recorded in ring_buffer.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, indeed this get_parent_ip was a bit harrassing
> > > in the traces, though I still don't understand why it is
> > > called so often.
> > >
> > > Anyway, tracing it seems to me not useful.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hi, Ingo,
> > Could you apply this fix?
> >
> > get_parent_ip() is a helper function for ftace, and it is called
> > by preempt_disable() and preempt_enable(), so it is occurred very
> > often.
>
> I can pull it in too, if Ingo is busy.

I have put it into tip:sched/urgent - it belongs there file-wise.
Will go upstream after -rc2 most likely.

Ingo
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