Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:28:04 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | [PATCH 2/2] trace: Record and show NMI state |
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The latency tracer format has a nice column to indicate IRQ state, but this is not able to tell us about NMI state.
When tracing perf interrupt handlers (which often run in NMI context) it is very useful to see how the events nest.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + kernel/trace/trace.h | 1 + kernel/trace/trace_output.c | 10 +++++++--- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -1662,6 +1662,7 @@ tracing_generic_entry_update(struct trac #else TRACE_FLAG_IRQS_NOSUPPORT | #endif + ((pc & NMI_MASK ) ? TRACE_FLAG_NMI : 0) | ((pc & HARDIRQ_MASK) ? TRACE_FLAG_HARDIRQ : 0) | ((pc & SOFTIRQ_MASK) ? TRACE_FLAG_SOFTIRQ : 0) | (tif_need_resched() ? TRACE_FLAG_NEED_RESCHED : 0) | --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ enum trace_flag_type { TRACE_FLAG_HARDIRQ = 0x08, TRACE_FLAG_SOFTIRQ = 0x10, TRACE_FLAG_PREEMPT_RESCHED = 0x20, + TRACE_FLAG_NMI = 0x40, }; #define TRACE_BUF_SIZE 1024 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c @@ -389,7 +389,9 @@ int trace_print_lat_fmt(struct trace_seq char irqs_off; int hardirq; int softirq; + int nmi; + nmi = entry->flags & TRACE_FLAG_NMI; hardirq = entry->flags & TRACE_FLAG_HARDIRQ; softirq = entry->flags & TRACE_FLAG_SOFTIRQ; @@ -415,10 +417,12 @@ int trace_print_lat_fmt(struct trace_seq } hardsoft_irq = + (nmi && hardirq) ? 'Z' : + nmi ? 'z' : (hardirq && softirq) ? 'H' : - hardirq ? 'h' : - softirq ? 's' : - '.'; + hardirq ? 'h' : + softirq ? 's' : + '.' ; trace_seq_printf(s, "%c%c%c", irqs_off, need_resched, hardsoft_irq);
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