Re: Tracing within functions.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Thank you very much for your reply. You pointed to me to  the right direction.

Andy

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Gustavo Bittencourt <gbitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think you can use FTRACE (http://lwn.net/Articles/365835/) and set
> function_graph as the tracer. To filter the output, you must enable
> CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE and set which function should be traced.
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Andy Ng <andreas2025@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using an RT kernel and in my  driver there is  an atomic code
>> path that just makes some critical I/O operations. I would like to
>> trigger a system function trace when kernel enters into a specific
>> function in my driver and stop the system trace at the end of the
>> function. I would like to identify time execution latencies for a
>> specific code path. I am using Cortex A9 and I have perf and PMU up
>> and running, but still it is not clear to me how to retrieve the
>> traces with those latencies in my code path.
>>
>> Any ideas how to trace/measure that  will be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andy
>> --
>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in
>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [RT Stable]     [Kernel Newbies]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux