Aubrey Li wrote:
> 2008/5/19 Rafael Vanoni <Rafael.Vanoni at sun.com>:
>> I've added xcalls to the event report and the number of wakeups x events are
>> more cohesive. This diff takes a shot at reporting that, let me know what
>> you think.
>>
>> A related problem is the number of xcalls that libdtrace is generating,
>> which puts powertop higher in the xcalls report than we'd like. I've been
>> looking at this and emailed dtrace-discuss about it.
>>
> Just said on dtrace-discuss, you can use the dtrace stack() to find
> the root cause.
> 
> Yes, xcall is an event powertop should report, currently xcall dtrace probe
> doesn't take the function as an argument, that prevents us getting the
> caller easily.
> Is it possible to change the current probe?
> 
> execname may be acceptable, but we should exclude execname=powertop,
> what do you think?
> 


Here's a patch for these changes.

thanks
Rafael
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