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From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT-TESTS] cyclictest: histogram overflow instance tracking
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:41:57 -0700
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On 10/22/12 18:16, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 10/16/12 10:02, Bhavesh Davda wrote:
>> From: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
>>
>> Add feature to cyclictest histogram mode to track cycle counts every time a
>> sample overflows the histogram limit. This should help identify if there is a
>> timing pattern to jitters in cyclictest runs.
>>
>> Example output (with -h 10):
>>  ...
>>  Histogram Overflows: 00001 00007 00000 00009 00004 00007 00000 00001
>>  Histogram Overflow at cycle number:
>>  Thread 0: 09964
>>  Thread 1: 00000 00004 00006 00008 00010 09962 11594
>>  Thread 2:
>>  Thread 3: 01169 04698 06782 09033 10299 11561 21517 28734 29532
>>  Thread 4: 11574 11580 11583 11586
>>  Thread 5: 00020 09448 13954 14954 18954 20587 24973
>>  Thread 6:
>>  Thread 7: 18950
>>  ...
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@vmware.com>
> 
> 
> After the patches survive checkpatch, I'll review and test them.

< snip >

> /home/frowand/tmp/hist_overflow_xxx_1 has style problems, please review.
> 
> If any of these errors are false positives, please report
> them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Oooooops, the following message was about the series file I would
use to apply the patches with quilt.  Please ignore it.

> ERROR: Does not appear to be a unified-diff format patch
> 
> total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 lines checked

-Frank