Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] irq: add tracepoint to softirq_raise

From: Koki Sanagi
Date: Sun Sep 05 2010 - 21:46:25 EST


(2010/09/04 0:50), Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:43:12AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 17:29 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>>
>>>> /*
>>>> * These correspond to the IORESOURCE_IRQ_* defines in
>>>> @@ -407,7 +408,12 @@ asmlinkage void do_softirq(void);
>>>> asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void);
>>>> extern void open_softirq(int nr, void (*action)(struct softirq_action *));
>>>> extern void softirq_init(void);
>>>> -#define __raise_softirq_irqoff(nr) do { or_softirq_pending(1UL << (nr)); } while (0)
>>>> +static inline void __raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr)
>>>> +{
>>>> + trace_softirq_raise((struct softirq_action *)&nr, NULL);
>>
>> Perhaps doing:
>>
>> trace_softirq_raise((struct softirq_action *)((unsigend long)nr),
>> NULL);
>>
>> and ...
>>
>>>> + or_softirq_pending(1UL << nr);
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> extern void raise_softirq_irqoff(unsigned int nr);
>>>> extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr);
>>>> extern void wakeup_softirqd(void);
>>>> diff --git a/include/trace/events/irq.h b/include/trace/events/irq.h
>>>> index 0e4cfb6..3ddda02 100644
>>>> --- a/include/trace/events/irq.h
>>>> +++ b/include/trace/events/irq.h
>>>> @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
>>>> #define _TRACE_IRQ_H
>>>>
>>>> #include <linux/tracepoint.h>
>>>> -#include <linux/interrupt.h>
>>>> +
>>>> +struct irqaction;
>>>> +struct softirq_action;
>>>>
>>>> #define softirq_name(sirq) { sirq##_SOFTIRQ, #sirq }
>>>> #define show_softirq_name(val) \
>>>> @@ -93,7 +95,10 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(softirq,
>>>> ),
>>>>
>>>> TP_fast_assign(
>>>> - __entry->vec = (int)(h - vec);
>>>> + if (vec)
>>>> + __entry->vec = (int)(h - vec);
>>>> + else
>>>> + __entry->vec = *((int *)h);
>>
>> __entry->vec = (int)h;
>>
>> would be better.
>>
>>
>>>> ),
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems that this will break softirq_entry/exit tracepoints.
>>> __entry->vec will deref vec->action() for these two, which is not
>>> what we want.
>>>
>>> If you can't have the same tracepoint signature for the three, just
>>> split the new one in a seperate TRACE_EVENT().
>>
>> Doing the above will at least be a bit safer.
>
>
> Agreed, I'm going to change that in the patch.
>
> Thanks.
>

I agree.

Thanks,
Koki Sanagi.

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