Re: [tip:timers/tracing] hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Oct 12 2009 - 23:27:51 EST


On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:18 +0000, tip-bot for Xiao Guangrong wrote:

> +/**
> + * hrtimer_start - called when the hrtimer is started
> + * @timer: pointer to struct hrtimer
> + */
> +TRACE_EVENT(hrtimer_start,
> +
> + TP_PROTO(struct hrtimer *timer),
> +
> + TP_ARGS(timer),
> +
> + TP_STRUCT__entry(
> + __field( void *, timer )
> + __field( void *, function )
> + __field( s64, expires )
> + __field( s64, softexpires )
> + ),
> +
> + TP_fast_assign(
> + __entry->timer = timer;
> + __entry->function = timer->function;
> + __entry->expires = hrtimer_get_expires(timer).tv64;
> + __entry->softexpires = hrtimer_get_softexpires(timer).tv64;
> + ),
> +
> + TP_printk("hrtimer %p, func %pf, expires %llu, softexpires %llu",
> + __entry->timer, __entry->function,
> + (unsigned long long)ktime_to_ns((ktime_t) {
> + .tv64 = __entry->expires }),
> + (unsigned long long)ktime_to_ns((ktime_t) {
> + .tv64 = __entry->softexpires }))
> +);
> +

I was just fixing up the trace-cmd parser (which is also used for perf)
and came across this code. That TP_printk shows up in the format file
as:

print fmt: "hrtimer %p, func %pf, expires %llu, softexpires %llu", REC->timer, REC->function, (unsigned long long)(((ktime_t) { .tv64 = REC->expires }).tv64), (unsigned long long)(((ktime_t) { .tv64 = REC->softexpires }).tv64)

Now I'm trying to parse this with a tool so that we can have something
that can read the binary output, and be able to easily figure it out by
reading the format files. But trying to parse:

(unsigned long long)(((ktime_t) { .tv64 = REC->expires }).tv64)

Is not easy. It's basically implementing a C interpreter :-(

Is there anyway we can change that TRACE_EVENT to give us a better,
trace printk output?

-- Steve


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