* Miklos Szeredi <mik...@szeredi.hu> wrote: > 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();
Btw., based on your earlier report, the same is now possible in the latest tracing tree via: echo 1 > /debug/tracing/options/global_clock Ingo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel