Re: [PATCH] PERF(kernel): Cleanup power events V2

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On Tuesday, October 26, 2010, Pierre Tardy wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 26, 2010, Pierre Tardy wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:56 -0500, Pierre Tardy wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> +       trace_runtime_pm_usage(dev, atomic_read(&dev->power.usage_count)+1);
> >> >>         atomic_inc(&dev->power.usage_count);
> >> >
> >> > That's terribly racy..
> >> >
> >> I know. I'm not proud of this.. As I said, this is preliminary patch.
> >> We dont really need to have this prev_usage. This is just for debug.
> >> It mayprobably endup with something like:
> >>
> >>          atomic_inc(&dev->power.usage_count);
> >> +       trace_power_device_usage(dev);
> >
> > Well, please tell me what you're trying to achieve.
> 
> Please see attached the kind of pytimechart output I'm trying to
> achieve (yes, this chart is not coherent, seems I'm still missing some
> traces)
> 
> We basically want to have a trace point eachtime the usage_counter
> changes, so that I can display nice timecharts, and Arjan can have the
> comm of the process that eventually generated the rpm_get, in order to
> pinpoint it in powertop.
> 
> What you dont see in the above two lines is that
> trace_power_device_usage(dev); actually reads the usage_count, as well
> as the driver and device name.

I'm afraid that for this to really work you'd need to put usage_count under a
spinlock along with your trace point, which I'm not really sure I like.

Besides, I'm not really sure the manipulations of usage_count are worth
tracing.

Thanks,
Rafael
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