Hi Masami, On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 23:21 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:49:01 -0500 > Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This patchset adds support for 'inter-event' quantities to the trace > > event subsystem. The most important example of inter-event quantities > > are latencies, or the time differences between two events. > > > > Thank you for your great work! > I'm playing this and found some issues. > > (1) new event format > ---- > # echo "wakeup_latency u64 lat; pid_t pid; int prio" > synthetic_events > # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat events/synthetic/wakeup_latency/format > name: wakeup_latency > ID: 972 > format: > field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0; > field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0; > field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1;signed:0; > field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1; > > field:u64 lat; offset:16; size:8; signed:0; > field:pid_t pid; offset:24; size:4; signed:1; > field:int prio; offset:32; size:4; signed:1; > > print fmt: "lat: 0x%08lx, pid: 0x%08lx, prio: 0x%08lx", ((u64)(REC->lat)), ((u64)(REC->pid)), ((u64)(REC->prio)) > ---- > Here, IMO, this format would be better "lat=0x%08lx pid=0x%08lx prio=0x%08lx" so that perf-script can parse it correctly. > OK, will change it. > (2) lockdep found a dead lock case > When I added a histogram trigger, it happened. > ---- > # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=$common_timestamp.usecs' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger > [33967.672485] > [33967.673117] ====================================================== > [33967.673117] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected > [33967.673117] 4.12.0-rc5+ #1 Not tainted > [33967.673117] ------------------------------------------------------ Yeah, will fix this and anything else similar, thanks for pointing it out. Tom -- 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
