Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] tracing: wprobe: Add watchpoint probe event based on hardware breakpoint

[Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:13:36 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 9/17/25 7:38 AM, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) wrote:
> >> +  #           TASK-PID     CPU#  |||||  TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
> >> +  #              | |         |   |||||     |         |
> >> +           <idle>-0       [000] d.Z1.  717.026259: my_jiffies: (tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xbe/0x130)
> >> +           <idle>-0       [000] d.Z1.  717.026373: my_jiffies: (tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xbe/0x130)
> >> +
> >> +You can see the code which writes to `jiffies` is `do_timer()`.
> > I'm having trouble getting from tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xbe/0x130,
> > which I expect is
> > 	jiffies_64 += ticks;
> > in that function, over to do_timer(), which also updates jiffies_64,
> > but is not called by tick_do_update_jiffies64(). AFAICT, there are
> > no calls to do_timer() in the file (kernel/time/tick-sched.c).
> > 
> > Can you explain, please?
> 
> Let me try this again.
> 
> I understand the stack (call) trace/dump and your explanation, but
> then your next comment says:
> 
> +You can see the code which writes to `jiffies` is `do_timer()`.
> 
> Does that need to be corrected?

Oops! sorry I missed that. Let me fix that.

Thank you for catching!

Thanks,

> 
> thanks.
> -- 
> ~Randy
> 


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