Re: [PATCH] new irq tracer

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:48:28AM -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> >>  /**
> >>   * handle_IRQ_event - irq action chain handler
> >>   * @irq:	the interrupt number
> >> @@ -354,7 +358,9 @@ irqreturn_t handle_IRQ_event(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *action)
> >>  		local_irq_enable_in_hardirq();
> >>  
> >>  	do {
> >> +		trace_irq_entry(irq);
> >>  		ret = action->handler(irq, action->dev_id);
> >> +		trace_irq_exit(irq, ret);
> >>  		if (ret == IRQ_HANDLED)
> >>  			status |= action->flags;
> >>  		retval |= ret;
> > 
> > Nobdy want unnecessary redundant tracepoint.
> > Please discuss with mathieu, and merge his tracepoint.
> 
> Hmm, from the viewpoint of trouble shooting, the place of LTTng's tracepoint
> is enough. However, from the same viewpoint, it should pass irq-number
> to irq-exit event too, because we may lost some previous events by buffer-overflow
> etc.
> 
>          trace_irq_entry(irq, NULL);
>          ret = _handle_IRQ_event(irq, action);
>          trace_irq_exit(irq, ret);
>                         ^^^^
> 

the lttng tracepoints wrap the calls to _handle_IRQ_event in 3
different places. So the above suggested irq tracepoint provides the
same information with 4 less tracepoints in the code. So I believe its
simpler - plus we can understand which action handlers are handling the
interrupt.

thanks,

-Jason