Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86, nmi: Add better NMI stats to /proc/interrupts and show handlers

From: Don Zickus
Date: Wed May 07 2014 - 12:05:37 EST


On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 05:42:31PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The main reason for this patch is because I have a hard time knowing
> > what NMI handlers are registered on the system when debugging NMI issues.
> >
> > This info is provided in /proc/interrupts for interrupt handlers, so I
> > added support for NMI stuff too. As a bonus it provides stat breakdowns
> > much like the interrupts.
> >
> > The only ugly issue is how to label NMI subtypes using only 3 letters
> > and still make it obvious it is part of the NMI. Adding a /proc/nmi
> > seemed overkill, so I choose to indent things by one space. Sample
> > output is below:
> >
> > [root@dhcp71-248 ~]# cat /proc/interrupts
> > CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
> > 0: 29 0 0 0 IR-IO-APIC-edge timer
> > <snip>
> > NMI: 20 774 10986 4227 Non-maskable interrupts
> > LOC: 21 775 10987 4228 Local PMI, arch_bt
> > EXT: 0 0 0 0 External plat
> > UNK: 0 0 0 0 Unknown
> > SWA: 0 0 0 0 Swallowed
> > LOC: 30374 24749 20795 15095 Local timer interrupts
> > SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
> > PMI: 20 774 10986 4227 Performance monitoring interrupts
> > <snip>
>
> Looks pretty useful!
>
> The lost vertical alignment of the counts is a problem though IMHO.

Agreed! It wasn't obvious to me at the time on how to keep that alignment
while only changing the first column. I can look at it again, if you are
ok with the small shift in the first column. Otherwise alternate ideas
are welcomed. :-)

Cheers,
Don
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