From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>,
David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add tracepoints to trace all system IRQs
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:28:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311859702.2617.174.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110728130925.GB11820@somewhere.redhat.com>
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 15:09 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 02:53:52PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 14:31 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > >
> > > Because that requires to put the tracepoints in every interrupt sources
> > > for every archs instead of putting one in the generic space.
> >
> > Yeah so, he needs to touch arch code anyway.
>
> He needs to touch arch code for pure arch interrupts or some cases
> where we don't have the choice. But otherwise there are many
> cases where we can put that in the generic code.
Which I just pointed out you can't, some 'generic' handlers are in fact
multiplexed on a single arch interrupt. If you want all interrupts, use
pure arch hooks at the lowest level and stop mucking about.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-28 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-14 21:38 [PATCH 0/6] Add tracepoints to trace all system IRQs Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-14 21:38 ` [PATCH 1/6] trace,x86: Add tracepoint to x86 timer interrupt handler Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-14 21:38 ` [PATCH 2/6] trace: Add tracepoints to timer interrupt handlers Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-14 21:38 ` [PATCH 3/6] trace: Add tracepoints to IRQ work run handler Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-14 22:09 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-14 23:01 ` Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-14 21:38 ` [PATCH 4/6] trace: Add tracepoints to reschedule interrupt handler Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-14 22:02 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-15 8:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-15 17:50 ` David Sharp
2011-07-21 12:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-21 18:04 ` Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-14 21:38 ` [PATCH 5/6] trace: Add tracepoints to call function interrupt handlers Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-14 22:05 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-14 23:02 ` Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-14 23:05 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-14 21:38 ` [PATCH 6/6] trace,x86: Add platform_irq_vector_{entry|exit} trace events Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-27 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Add tracepoints to trace all system IRQs Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-28 12:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-28 12:31 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-28 12:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-28 13:09 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-28 13:28 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-07-28 14:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-28 14:08 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-28 17:39 ` Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-27 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] trace,x86: Add tracepoint to x86 timer interrupt handler Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-27 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] trace: Add tracepoints to timer interrupt handlers Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-27 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] trace: Add tracepoints to IRQ work run handler Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-28 12:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-28 13:29 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-28 13:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-28 14:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-27 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] trace: Add tracepoints to reschedule interrupt handler Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-28 12:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-27 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] trace: Add tracepoints to call function interrupt handlers Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2011-07-28 12:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-27 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] trace,x86: Add platform_irq_vector_{entry|exit} trace events Vaibhav Nagarnaik
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