Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
>>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> we all know that the latency test should not be run with a period of
>>>>> 100 us because it easily gets locked up. The attached trace illustrates
>>>>> this problem in detail. It shows that a timer interrupt needs about 50
>>>>> us to be processed. Furthermore, there is not enough time between two
>>>>> timer interrupts for the latency task to get all its work done.
>>>>>
>>>>> The current I-pipe tracer patch for ARM is available at
>>>>> http://opensource.emlix.com/ipipe-s3c24xx/download/ipipe-tracer-arm.pat
>>>>> ch _v4
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments welcome.
>>>> Something is still broken, given all those "N"s in Delay column. Is
>>>> there something like NMI at all on your board?
>>> There isn't AFAIK. What could be the reason for all this noise? Recursive
>>> spin-locking?
>> Yes. If those Ns aren't false positive in the sense that
>> IPIPE_TFLG_NMI_HIT is set accidentally, __ipipe_trace is re-entered
>> while IPIPE_TFLG_NMI_LOCK is still set.
> 
> Interesting: If I disable CONFIG_IPIPE_TRACE_MCOUNT the "Noise" doesn't 
> appear 
> at all.

Sounds like some function that __ipipe_trace calls is instrumented, thus
the recursion. Could be something trivial like memcpy (if that happens
to be uninlined here). You may want to check the disassembly... :)

Jan

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