Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> 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.p
>>>>>>> at 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).
> 
> Ok, your hint was very useful! The problem was __ipipe_mach_get_tsc() which 
> is 
> no inline function (and can't be). I solved it by adding 'notrace' to the 
> function. Now the 'N's don't appear at all!

And I guess the overhead should drop a bit as well. Perfect.

If you have anything more pending, please post soon, Gilles is
collecting the ARM stuff for Xenomai 2.3.

Jan

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