On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 23:23 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >
> > This patch solves this by not scheduling on preempt_enable() after
> > ptrace_stop() has woken up the tracer.
>
> Nice,.. however did you find this?
Ftrace helped a lot, it's a really cool tool :). I had to patch it
with this, otherwise the timestamps would be totally off:
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index bd38c5c..557c2dd 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ u64 ring_buffer_time_stamp(int cpu)
preempt_disable_notrace();
/* shift to debug/test normalization and TIME_EXTENTS */
- time = sched_clock() << DEBUG_SHIFT;
+ time = cpu_clock(cpu) << DEBUG_SHIFT;
preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
return time;
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