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    SubjectRe: [patch 00/37] Linux Kernel Markers instrumentation for sched-devel.git
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    On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 16:11 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
    > * Peter Zijlstra (a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl) wrote:
    > > On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 11:03 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
    > > > Hi Ingo,
    > > >
    > > > Here is a rather large patchset applying kernel instrumentation to
    > > > sched-devel.git. It includes, mainly :
    > >
    > > I saw this land in sched-devel, how about this:
    > >
    >
    > I think the main reason why those markers are ugly is they have
    > information meant for use by a general purpose tracer (it will only take
    > the parameters before the ## signs).
    >
    > The other way around is to start specializing the general purpose tracer
    > to extract the information it needs from the task and rq pointers and
    > put that in the traces. Actually, that's the approach I use currently
    > use in LTTng, but Ingo seemed interested to have the union of parameters
    > needed by specialized and GP tracers, so this is what I did.
    >
    > The only thing I dislike with the approach of putting everything in a
    > separatered header is that it adds a layer of indirection when one try
    > to to quickly grep for trace_mark() in the kernel tree to see where the
    > conceptual tracing points are. Therefore, it might be interesting to
    > simply remove the parameters meant for the general purpose tracer and
    > let this GP tracer create specialized probes for these instrumentation
    > sites. It would therefore remove the ugliness without creating a
    > supplementary indirection layer.

    In part its the extra parameters, but to a large part its that darn
    string. I'm still not getting why we can't just live with trace marks
    like 'regular' functions much like the ones I used to wrap trace_mark().

    > > Index: linux-2.6-2/kernel/sched_trace.h
    > > ===================================================================
    > > --- /dev/null
    > > +++ linux-2.6-2/kernel/sched_trace.h
    > > @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
    > > +#include <linux/marker.h>
    > > +
    > > +static inline void trace_kernel_sched_wait(struct task_struct *p)
    > > +{
    > > + trace_mark(kernel_sched_wait_task, "pid %d state %ld",
    > > + p->pid, p->state);
    > > +}
    > > +
    > > +static inline
    > > +void trace_kernel_sched_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
    > > +{
    > > + trace_mark(kernel_sched_wakeup,
    > > + "pid %d state %ld ## rq %p task %p rq->curr %p",
    > > + p->pid, p->state, rq, p, rq->curr);
    > > +}
    > > +
    > > +static inline
    > > +void trace_kernel_sched_wakeup_new(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
    > > +{
    > > + trace_mark(kernel_sched_wakeup_new,
    > > + "pid %d state %ld ## rq %p task %p rq->curr %p",
    > > + p->pid, p->state, rq, p, rq->curr);
    > > +}
    > > +
    > > +static inline void trace_kernel_sched_switch(struct rq *rq,
    > > + struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next)
    > > +{
    > > + trace_mark(kernel_sched_schedule,
    > > + "prev_pid %d next_pid %d prev_state %ld "
    > > + "## rq %p prev %p next %p",
    > > + prev->pid, next->pid, prev->state,
    > > + rq, prev, next);
    > > +}
    > > +
    > > +static inline void
    > > +trace_kernel_sched_migrate_task(struct task_struct *p, int src, int dst)
    > > +{
    > > + trace_mark(kernel_sched_migrate_task,
    > > + "pid %d state %ld dest_cpu %d",
    > > + p->pid, p->state, dst);
    > > +}

    One advantage of having these things close together would be that it
    stimulates consistency between the various trace points. Something that
    would be sorely needed with such a free form mechanism.

    Peter



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