Re: fanotify as syscalls

Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-17T17:36:09Z

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:40:16 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> And then we have page faults. I've long wished that from a system
> call tracing standpoint we could show page faults as
> pseudo-system-calls (at least as long as they happen from user space
> - trying to handle nesting is not worth it). It would make it _so_
> much more obvious what the performance patterns are if you could just
> do
>
> strace -ttT firefox
>
> for the cold-cache case and you'd see where the time is really spent.
>
> (yeah, yeah, you can get that kind of information other ways, but
> it's a hell of a lot less convenient than just getting a nice trace
> with timestamps).

ohhh I should add pagefaults to timechart
good one.

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