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From: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
To: Mark.Kelly@lexisnexis.com
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: spin_lock cause ?
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 19:37:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4716588.WReR5L1Wkn@milian-kdab2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <574F15E4.5070008@lexisnexis.com>

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On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 1:05:40 PM CEST Kelly, Mark (RIS-BCT) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Perf report for our application shows:
> 
>   34.27%  [kernel]                    [k] _spin_lock
>    8.19%  libjlib.so                  [.] CLZWExpander::expand(void*)
>    4.62%  libjhtree.so                [.] CMRUCacheOf<CKeyIdAndPos,
> CJHTreeNode> 1.97%  [kernel]                    [k] futex_wait_setup
>    1.51%  [kernel]                    [k] native_write_msr_safe
>    1.34%  [kernel]                    [k] futex_wake
> 
> Any suggestion for how to trace where/who is responsible for the spin_lock ?

For both cases, you should collect backtraces which should allow you to find 
culprits. Have you tried:

perf record --call-graph dwarf

or similar?

Cheers

-- 
Milian Wolff | milian.wolff@kdab.com | Software Engineer
KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH&Co KG, a KDAB Group company
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-01 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-01 17:05 spin_lock cause ? Kelly, Mark (RIS-BCT)
2016-06-01 17:37 ` Milian Wolff [this message]
2016-06-01 17:43   ` M Kelly
2016-06-01 18:11     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-06-01 18:49       ` M Kelly
2016-06-01 18:53         ` Rick Jones
2016-06-01 19:25           ` M Kelly
2016-06-01 20:24             ` Rick Jones
2016-06-01 21:10               ` David Ahern
2016-06-02  9:18         ` Milian Wolff

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