Re: [ANNOUNCE] oprofile profiler

2001-01-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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[UPDATE] LTT now supports real-time tracing

2000-08-30 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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Re: I/O statistics per process?

2000-09-12 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-10-05 Thread Karim Yaghmour
to take a look at the paper I presented last June at the annual Usenix technical conference: http://www.opersys.com/LTT/ltt-usenix.ps.gz And LTT can be found at: http://www.opersys.com/LTT/ Cheers === Karim Yaghmour [EMAIL

Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-10-06 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-10-06 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thought I'd let you know that I will reply to your suggestions (which are quite interesting by the way) ... but I need to catch up some sleep as it's close to 7AM here in Montreal and my brains are failing ... ;) === Karim

Re: DProbes with LTT

2000-10-10 Thread Karim Yaghmour
T. Would port the code from OS/2 if LTT had a suitable formatting exit for custom events. Any thoughts on this? Richard Richard Moore - RAS Project Lead - Linux Technology Centre (PISC). http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux Office: (+44) (0)1962-817072, Mob

Re: Dynamically altering code segments

2001-02-27 Thread Karim Yaghmour
mp in your code, but in the hooks management code first. Best regards, Karim === Karim Yaghmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating System Consultant (Linux kernel, real-time and distribut

[ANNOUNCE] Linux Trace Toolkit version 0.9.4

2001-03-19 Thread Karim Yaghmour
at the "mailing lists" section of the project's web-site for more detail. You can find LTT at: http://www.opersys.com/LTT Cheers, Karim Yaghmour === Karim Yaghmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Embedded and Real-Time Li

Announce: DProbes/LTT interoperability and custom event logging

2000-11-25 Thread Karim Yaghmour
es at: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/dprobes/ Best regards Karim === Karim Yaghmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating System Consultant (Linux kernel, real-time and distributed systems) === - To uns

Re: Microsecond accuracy

2000-12-07 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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Re: Tracing files that opens.

2000-11-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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Re: Issue compiling 2.4test10

2000-11-13 Thread Karim Yaghmour
c_hid/mouse_button_emulation and there's no effect. Anyone know what this is about? Thanks. === Karim Yaghmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating System Consultant (Linux k

Mac-buttons emulation broken in 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-13 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Shouldn't this be called upon from the keyboard and mouse handlers? === Karim Yaghmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating System Consultant (Linux kernel, real-time and distribut

Re: Mac-buttons emulation broken in 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-13 Thread Karim Yaghmour
t(index, list-buttons); break; ------- Karim Yaghmour wrote: The mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons() in drivers/macintosh/mac_hid.c which takes care of emulating multiple buttons on a mac doesn't seem to be used anywhere. In fac

Re: Event tools, do they exist

2001-04-26 Thread Karim Yaghmour
this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- === Karim Yaghmour

[ANNOUNCE] Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems

2001-02-15 Thread Karim Yaghmour
is welcomed to contact me. KEEP IN MIND that the documents are only a suggested method of doing things designed to stimulate discussion. There isn't one line of functionnal code out there (yet). Best regards, Karim === Karim

Re: monitoring I/O

2001-02-19 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems

2001-02-20 Thread Karim Yaghmour
that this code will certainly crash your machine. It is an attempt to drive Linux into ring-one, but it is not functionnal. You've been warned. Feel free to join in the discussion. Best regards, Karim Yaghmour Karim Yaghmour wrote: I've put up the following (white) papers out for general

[ANNOUNCE] Linux Trace Toolkit 0.9.5pre1

2001-03-29 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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Re: No 100 HZ timer !

2001-04-10 Thread Karim Yaghmour
.) === Karim Yaghmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert === - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

Re: real-time file monitoring at the kernel level

2001-04-12 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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Re: Linux Security Module Interface

2001-04-14 Thread Karim Yaghmour
://www.opersys.com/LTT). Cheers, Karim === Karim Yaghmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Embedded and Real-Time Linux Expert === - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

Re: Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimized architectures

2007-02-16 Thread Karim Yaghmour
- KRYPTIVA PACKAGED MESSAGE - PACKAGING TYPE: SIGNED Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: The main goal of this config option is for embedded systems which doesn't support live code modification. Maybe we can put that under embedded sytems menu ? Not sure whether you had had other feedback on

Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimized architectures

2007-02-21 Thread Karim Yaghmour
- KRYPTIVA PACKAGED MESSAGE - PACKAGING TYPE: SIGNED Hello Mathieu, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Yes, that was indeed the first way I implemented it, as a disable option. One of the main thing we have to figure out before I modify this is if we want to have the generic version of markers

Re: [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimized architectures

2007-02-21 Thread Karim Yaghmour
- KRYPTIVA PACKAGED MESSAGE - PACKAGING TYPE: SIGNED Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: The problem with your proposal, I guess, is that people will have to add a supplementary parameter to the macro. It is not uncommon to have two slightly versions of macros/functions in the kernel

Re: [PATCH] relayfs crash

2005-02-06 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Kingsley Cheung wrote: To solve the problem I applied a patch similar to the one you posted back in July and it fixed the problem. Could we consider putting this patch into relayfs? Its similar to the one posted in July 2004, except it also moves clear_readers() before INIT_WORK in

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-13 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: *NOT using realyfs* if it is not neccessary for possibly big amout of feactures future KProbes IMO in this case is *fundamental*. To time where this base not requiring relayfs feactures will not be integrated in kernel code better IMO will be stop merging relayfs.

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-18 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Roman Zippel wrote: The point is to design a simple and flexible relayfs layer, which means not every possible function has to be done in the relayfs layer, as long it's flexible enough to build additional functionality on top of it (for which it can again provide some library functions).

Weird USB errors on HD

2005-07-19 Thread Karim Yaghmour
I have a usb-attached HD that I use from time to time. When it's connected to my desktop through a hub it works flawlessly. When connected to my Dell D600 Laptop, however, it sometimes randomly exhibits a loud click (as if the heads went berzerk) and the device goes unrecognized (i.e. the USB

Re: Weird USB errors on HD

2005-07-19 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Greg KH wrote: Ugh, you have a bad device or power supply, or aren't giving it enough power to drive the thing. Nothing we can do in Linux for that, sorry. Buy a wall-powered usb hub, that usually helps. I have one. I naively thought I could just plug the drive directly to the laptop without

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-22 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Tom Zanussi wrote: - removed the deliver() callback - removed the relay_commit() function This breaks LTT. Any reason why this needed to be removed? In the end, the code will just end up being duplicated in ltt and all other users. IOW, this is not some potential future use, but something

Re: [PATCH] Re: relayfs documentation sucks?

2005-07-25 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Christoph Hellwig wrote: That beein said I wish LTT folks would make a little more progress so we could actually include it. We're working on it. On the topic of revamping LTT, 3 different people came up with 3 different implementations. Following your feedback on the patch I sent a few weeks

Re: Weird USB errors on HD

2005-07-25 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Alistair John Strachan wrote: You can get special USB cables that link two USB ports' 5Vs together in parallel, which seems to help supply the necessary current; after the HD has spun up you can remove the second dummy USB connector (my laptop only has two USB ports and I require the

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-25 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Tom Zanussi wrote: In userspace, the sub-buffer reading loop looks at the commit value in the sub-buffer, and if it matches (sub-buffer size - padding), the buffer has been completely written and can be saved, otherwise it's not yet complete and is checked again the next time around. This

Re: list patches in kernel

2005-07-26 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Brad Tilley wrote: Is there an easy way to make a running kernel display how it has been patched from vanilla? Probably not, but I thought I'd ask. This issue does come up every so often. If you look in the archives you should find some info about this, including a patch if my memory is

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Significantly reworked LTT core

2005-07-08 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Christoph Hellwig wrote: We're not gonna add hooks to the kernel so you can copile the same horrible code you had before against it out of tree. Do a sane demux and submit it. If I just wanted hooks, I would have submitted a patch that did just that, without any logging function. The code

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-08 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Missing attachment herein included. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || 1-866-677-4546 L M B E N C H 2 . 0 S U M M A R Y

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Paul Rolland wrote: mmap | 794us | 654us (+18%) | 822us (+4%) You mean -18%, not +18% I think. Doh ... too many numbers flying around ... yes, -18% :) Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Ingo Molnar wrote: yeah, they definitely have helped, and thanks for this round of testing too! I'll explain the recent changes to PREEMPT_RT that resulted in these speedups in another mail. Great, I'm very much looking forward to it. Looking at your numbers i realized that the area where

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Karim Yaghmour wrote: I would usually like very much to entertain this further, but we've really busted all the time slots I had allocated to this work. So at this time, we really think others should start publishing results. After all, our results are no more authoritative than those

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Can't type right anymore ... Karim Yaghmour wrote: BTW, we've also released the latest very of the LRTBF we used to version Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Ingo Molnar wrote: So why do your ping flood results show such difference? It really is just another type of interrupt workload and has nothing special in it. ... are you suggesting this is not really a benchmark but a way to test how well a particular system withholds against extreme

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Andrew Morton wrote: Still, first let us get a handle on who wants relayfs now and in the future and for what. Then we can better decide. We used relayfs for our series of tests on PREEMPT_RT and I-Pipe. Specifically, we used relayfs buffers to store the timestamps for our interrupt latency

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Greg KH wrote: What ever happened to exporting the relayfs file ops, and just using debugfs as your controlling fs instead? As all of the possible users fall under the debug type of kernel feature, it makes more sense to confine users to that fs, right? Actually, like we discussed the last

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Greg KH wrote: Based on the proposed users of this fs, I don't see any. What ones are you saying are not debug type operations? And yes, I consider LTT a debug type operation :) The best part of this, is it gives distros and users a consistant place to mount the fs, and to know where

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Greg KH wrote: The path/filename dictates how it is used, so putting relayfs type files in debugfs is just fine. debugfs allows any types of files to be there. ... New trees in / are not LSB compliant, hence the reason for writing securityfs to get rid of /selinux and other LSM filesystems

Re: Relayfs question

2005-03-19 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Ok, urandom was a bad example. I have my tty logger (ttyrpld.sf.net) which moves a lot of data (depends) to userspace. It uses a ring buffer of fixed size (set at module load time). Apart from that relayfs could use a dynamic sized ring buffer, I would not see any

Re: Relayfs question

2005-03-19 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Karim Yaghmour wrote: What relayfs does, and does very well, is move very large amounts of data out of the kernel and make them available to user-space with very little overhead. In the actual case of your tty logger, I've browsed through the code briefly, and I think that with relayfs you

Re: Relayfs question

2005-03-19 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Well, what about things like urandom? It also moves a lot of data and does nothing else. Forgive my slowness today, but I don't get the angle here: - Relayfs is not a replacement for char devices, we've never claimed it to be. - Urandom generates a lot of data, and uses

Re: read() on relayfs channel returns premature 0

2005-03-25 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Hm? Relayfs does not support a `cat /dev/relay/AChannelName` anymore? This was a requirement for it to be included. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-25 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Roman Zippel wrote: Ok, great. BTW I don't really expect the first version to be fully optimized (unless you want to :) ), but once the basics are right, that can still be added later. Agreed. Tom will post updated patches sometime this week. I'll follow up with the LTT stuff separately as

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2

2005-01-31 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Andi Kleen wrote: It's doing a complicated function call which does who knows what in the logging fast path (I stopped reading after some point) It definitely is not putc ! I was anticipating some people would have this requirement, and this is why I introduced the ad-hoc mode. Roman asked

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2

2005-01-31 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Tom Zanussi wrote: OK, makes sense to me - I'll get rid of relay_reserve and replace it with the simple putc write and variant. Please don't do that. Instead, bring back the ad-hoc mode code, that's what is was for anyway. You could just create and log into a separate relayfs channel, if you

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2

2005-01-31 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Tom Zanussi wrote: I don't think they need to be mutually exclusive - we could keep relay_reserve(), but the relay_write() that's currently built on top of relay_reserve() would use the putc code instead. It's complicating the API a bit, but if it makes everyone happy... Actually I think

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2

2005-01-31 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:38:22PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote: +extern void * alloc_rchan_buf(unsigned long size, + struct page ***page_array, + int *page_count); +extern void free_rchan_buf(void *buf, +

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2

2005-01-31 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Greg KH wrote: When relayfs is built into the kernel, those symbols are then global to the whole static kernel. Please be nice and rename them. My pleasure :) Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits

Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-15 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Thomas, I don't mind having a general discussion about instrumentation, but it has to be understood that the topic is so general and means so many different things to different people that we are unlikely to reach any useful consensus. Believe me, it's not for the lack of trying. More

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-15 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Thomas, In the interest of avoiding expanding the thread too thin, I'm replying to both emails in the same time. Thomas Gleixner wrote: relayfs is a generalized buffering mechanism. Tracing is one application it serves. Check out the web site: high-speed data-relay filesystem. Fancy name

Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-15 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Roman, Roman Zippel wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Karim Yaghmour wrote: In addition, and this is a very important issue, quite a few kernel developers mistook LTT for a kernel debugging tool, which it was never meant to be. When, in fact, if you ask those who have looked at using

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-15 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Roman, Roman Zippel wrote: It's interesting to read more about ltt's requirements, but I still think it's possible to leave this work to the relayfs layer. Ok, I'm willing to play ball, but can you be a little bit more specific. Why not just move the ltt buffer management into

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-16 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Christoph, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Why would you want anything but read access? Fine, we can put it read-only, we'll drop the mode field. I think random access is overkill. Keeping the code simple is more important and user-space can post-process it. it's overkill if you're

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-16 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Christoph Hellwig wrote: the lockless mode is really just loops around cmpxchg. It's spinlocks reinvented poorly. I beg to differ. You have to use different spinlocks depending on where you are: - serving user-space - bh-derivatives - irq lockless is the same primitive regardless of your

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-16 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Roman, Roman Zippel wrote: It seems we first need to specify, what relayfs actually is supposed to be. Is it a relaying mechanism for large amount of data from kernel to user space or is it a general communication channel between kernel and user space? You have to choose one, if you

Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-16 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas Gleixner wrote: This implies to seperate - infrastructure - event registration - transport mechanism Like I said in my first response: we can't be everything for everbody, the requirements are just too broad. ISO tried it with OSI. Have a look at net/* for the result. Currently,

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-16 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas Gleixner wrote: Which is every 1.42 seconds on a 3GHz machine. I guess we don't have GB's of data when the 1.42 seconds elapse without an event. My argument was about being able to browse the amount of data I was refering to. The hearbeat thing was an asside to Roman as to the fact that

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas Gleixner wrote: Sorting out disabled events is the filtering you have to do in kernel and you should do it in the hot path or remove the unneccecary tracepoints at compiletime. Do you actually read my replies or do you just grep for something you can object to? If you care to read my

Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas Gleixner wrote: Thats the point. Adding another hardwired implementation does not give us a possibility to solve the hardwired problem of the already available stuff. Well then, like I said before, you know what you need to do:

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Roman, Roman Zippel wrote: Periodically can also mean a buffer start call back from relayfs (although that would mean the first entry is not guaranteed) or a (per cpu) eventcnt from the subsystem. The amount of needed search would be limited. The main point is from the relayfs POV

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Chistoph, Christoph Hellwig wrote: The thing I'm unhappy with is what the code does currently. I haven't looked at the code enough nor through about the problem enough to tell you what's the right thing to do. Knowing that will involve review of the architecture and serious

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas Gleixner wrote: I know, what I have said. I said reduce the filtering to the absolute minimum and do the rest in userspace. You keep adopting the interpretation which best suits you, taking quotes out of context, and keep repeating things that have already been answered. There are

Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas Gleixner wrote: If we add another hardwired implementation then we do not have said benefits. Please stop handwaving. Folks like Andrew, Christoph, Zwane, Roman, and others actually made specific requests for changes in the code. What makes you think you're so special that you think you

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Roman, Roman Zippel wrote: An additional comment about the order of events. What you're doing in lockless_reserve is bogus anyway. There is no single correct time to write into the event. By artificially synchronizing event order and event time you only cheat yourself. You either

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas Gleixner wrote: Provide a hook, export it and load your filters as a module, but keep the filters out of the mainline kernel code. Great idea! I will do exactly that. Thanks, Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Roman, Roman Zippel wrote: Why is so important that it's at the start of the buffer? What's wrong with a special event _near_ the start of a buffer? [snip] What gives you the idea, that you can't do this with what I proposed? You can still seek freely within the data at buffer

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-17 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Aaron Cohen wrote: I've got a quick question and I just want to be clear that it doesn't have a political agenda behind it. :) Here goes, why can't LTT and/or relayfs, work similar to the way syslog does and just fill a buffer (aka ring-buffer or whatever is appropriate), while a

Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-18 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Thomas, Thomas Gleixner wrote: Yes, I did already start cleaning cat ../broken-out/ltt* | patch -p1 -R :D If it gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling to have the last cheap-shot, then I'm all for it, it is of no consequence anyway. And _please_ don't forget to answer this very email with

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-18 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Tom Zanussi wrote: I have to disagree. Awhile back, if you remember, I posted a patch to the LTT daemon that would monitor the trace stream in real time, and process it using an embedded Perl interpreter, no less: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernelm=109405724500237w=2 It

Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-19 Thread Karim Yaghmour
:) Karim Yaghmour wrote: If you really want to define layers, then there are actually four layers: 1- hooking mechanism 2- event definition / registration 3- event management infrastructure 4- transport mechanism For 1, kprobes would seem largely sufficient. In cases where you don't have

Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-20 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Werner Almesberger wrote: - if the probe target is an instruction long enough, replace it with a jump or call (that's what I think the kprobes folks are working on. I remember for sure that they were thinking about it.) I heard about this years ago, but I don't know that anything came

Re: [RFC] tracepipe -- event streams, debugfs, and pipe_buffers

2005-01-20 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Zach Brown wrote: Thoughts? I, for one, am tired of writing throw-away per-cpu tracing patches ;) Have you taken a look at relayfs and ltt? Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux for 2.6.10: lean and mean

2005-01-20 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Greg KH wrote: Hm, how about this idea for cutting about 500 more lines from the code: Why not drop the fs part of relayfs and just make the code a set of struct file_operations. That way you could have relayfs-like files in any ram based file system that is being used. Then, a user could

Re: [RFC] tracepipe -- event streams, debugfs, and pipe_buffers

2005-01-20 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Zach Brown wrote: Only briefly. They've always seemed more involved than the sort of thing I was after. I'll try and sit down and investigate in more detail. There's definitely an opportunity for interfacing here. If nothing else, this clearly shows the interest for the kind of things both

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-20 Thread Karim Yaghmour
OK, I finally come around to answering this ... Roman Zippel wrote: Sorry, you missunderstood me. At the moment I'm only secondarily interested in the API details, primarily I want to work out the details of what exactly relayfs/ltt are supposed to do. One main question here I can't

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-22 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Roman, Roman Zippel wrote: Well, let's concentrate for a moment on the last thing and check later if and how they fit into relayfs. Since ltt will be first main user, let's optimize it for this. Also since relayfs is intended for large, fast data transfers, per cpu buffers are

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-22 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Karim Yaghmour wrote: This is not good for any client that doesn't know beforehand the exact size of their data units, as in the case of LTT. If LTT has to use this code that means we are going to loose performance because we will need to fill an intermediate data structure which will only

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux for 2.6.10: lean and mean

2005-01-22 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Greg KH wrote: Are they willing to trade off the performance of LTT to get this? I thought this was being touted as a when you need to test type of thing, not a run it all the time type of feature. The problem is that you never know beforehand when you're going to get that weird glitch on

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-23 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Karim Yaghmour wrote: This is not good for any client that doesn't know beforehand the exact size of their data units, as in the case of LTT. If LTT has to use this code that means we are going to loose performance because we will need to fill an intermediate data structure which will only

Average instruction length in x86-built kernel?

2005-07-29 Thread Karim Yaghmour
I'm wondering if anyone's ever done an analysis on the average length of instructions in an x86-built kernel. Googling around, I can find references claiming that the average instruction length on x86 is anywhere from 2.7 to 3.5 bytes, but I can't find anything studying Linux specifically. Just

Re: Average instruction length in x86-built kernel?

2005-07-30 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Hello Ingo, Ingo Oeser wrote: Just study the output od objdump -d and average the differences of the first hex number in a line printed, which are followed by a : Here's a script that does what I was looking for: #!/bin/bash # Dissassemble objdump -d $1 -j .text $2-dissassembled-kernel #

Reading perf counters at ftrace trace boundaries

2013-08-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
somewhat already sent privately. ] -- Karim Yaghmour CEO - Opersys inc. / www.opersys.com http://twitter.com/karimyaghmour -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: Reading perf counters at ftrace trace boundaries

2013-08-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
ftrace begin/exit. But possibly starting with some kind of every nth and then drilling down as the culprit is incrementally singled-out. -- Karim Yaghmour CEO - Opersys inc. / www.opersys.com http://twitter.com/karimyaghmour -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Reading perf counters at ftrace trace boundaries

2013-08-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
if a divide and conquer approach (i.e. based on ftrace) wouldn't take the guesswork out of smart randomization. Just a hunch. -- Karim Yaghmour CEO - Opersys inc. / www.opersys.com http://twitter.com/karimyaghmour -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: Reading perf counters at ftrace trace boundaries

2013-08-12 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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Logging/buffering mechanism comparison? (ring buffer, relay, etc.)

2014-02-05 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Just wondering if anyone had some pointers on a comparison between the various logging/buffering mechanisms out there (ring buffer, relay, lttng buffering, etc.)? Googling was inconclusive. Anything that has benchmarks/pros/cons would be great. Thanks, -- Karim Yaghmour CEO - Opersys inc

Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] tracing: 'hist' triggers

2015-03-02 Thread Karim Yaghmour
kernel tree from Qualcomm or Intel is closer to what gets really shipped than the two links above. -- Karim Yaghmour CEO - Opersys inc. / www.opersys.com http://twitter.com/karimyaghmour -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord

Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] tracing: 'hist' triggers

2015-03-02 Thread Karim Yaghmour
of regex... including sched_switch: next_prio... Yes, it does. This is why it's not meant for analyzing large traces. -- Karim Yaghmour CEO - Opersys inc. / www.opersys.com http://twitter.com/karimyaghmour -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] tracing: 'hist' triggers

2015-03-02 Thread Karim Yaghmour
of regex... including sched_switch: next_prio... Oh, and you can't use Firefox to view the traces it generates. You can only use Chrome ... even though the documentation says: ... you can open the report using a web browser. Which I guess means that browser = chrome at Google. -- Karim Yaghmour CEO

Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] tracing: 'hist' triggers

2015-03-02 Thread Karim Yaghmour
itself to output trace info into trace_marker. And the systrace/atrace tools made available to app developers need to get access to this tracing info. So, if Android had tracing disabled, systrace/atrace wouldn't work. https://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/systrace.html -- Karim Yaghmour CEO

Re: [ANNOUNCE] oprofile profiler

2001-01-11 Thread Karim Yaghmour
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