Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: add latency format to function_graph tracer

From: Török Edwin
Date: Fri Sep 11 2009 - 11:38:21 EST


On 2009-09-11 18:18, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:11:56AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 16:55 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Oh, BTW, what would you think about addding the current->lock_depth
>>> in the latency format? That may help debug the bkl...
>>>
>> Hmm, that would require adding another field for all traces. I don't
>> want to increase the size of an entry unneeded. BTW, this is for all
>> entries (even events).
>>
>
>
> Right...
>
>
>
>> Ug! I just noticed that tgid was added to struct trace_entry, with the
>> only user as the user stack entry. This should be in the user stack
>> field not something that goes into every event!
>>
>> I guess I need to fix that too.
>>

Indeed tgid should be part of struct userstack_entry, and set in
ftrace_trace_userstack.
Do you want to me to write up a patch for that, or have you already
fixed it?

Best regards,
--Edwin
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