Re: [patch] fix uml slowness caused by ptrace preemption bug on host

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 23:23 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > 
> > > This patch solves this by not scheduling on preempt_enable() after
> > > ptrace_stop() has woken up the tracer.
> > 
> > Nice,.. however did you find this?
> 
> Ftrace helped a lot, it's a really cool tool :).  I had to patch it
> with this, otherwise the timestamps would be totally off:
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> index bd38c5c..557c2dd 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ u64 ring_buffer_time_stamp(int cpu)
>  
>  	preempt_disable_notrace();
>  	/* shift to debug/test normalization and TIME_EXTENTS */
> -	time = sched_clock() << DEBUG_SHIFT;
> +	time = cpu_clock(cpu) << DEBUG_SHIFT;
>  	preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();

Btw., based on your earlier report, the same is now possible in the 
latest tracing tree via:

   echo 1 > /debug/tracing/options/global_clock

	Ingo