On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:

> hi,
> 
> i'm trying to trace a possible latency issue using ftrace with a
> 2.6.27 kernel on a x86 platform, but there seems to be something that
> i'm missing
> 
> i do the following:
> 
> cat available_tracers
> wakeup preemptirqsoff preemptoff irqsoff ftrace sched_switch none
> 
> echo 0 > tracing_enabled
> 
> echo irqsoff > current_tracer
> 
> echo 1 > tracing_enabled
> 
> <do stuff>
> 
> echo 0 > tracing_enabled
> 
> cat latency_trace
> # tracer: irqsoff
> #
> 
> cat trace
> # tracer: irqsoff
> #
> #           TASK-PID   CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
> #              | |      |          |         |
> 
> cat tracing_max_latency
> -1

# echo 0 > tracing_max_latency

The -1 is a misnomer :-(  The tracing_max_latency is unsigned so a -1 
is actually a really big number.

-- Steve

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