From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
fweisbec@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 12:24:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131008162451.GA1848@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5254313F.4030409@gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:22:23AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 10/8/13 9:51 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:59:38AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > > You might want to concentrate your efforts from fighting perf
> > > functionality towards decreasing per tracepoint overhead instead,
> > > without hurting kernel functionality and maintainability.
> >
> > Making it easier to disable perf entirely would be desirable for one use case.
> > I can't do a trinity run for more than a few hours for the last few months
> > without hitting perf/ftrace bugs that no-one seems to be able to get their
> > heads around.
>
> Looks like trinity has an exclude syscall option. Seems like that option
> can be used to avoid perf_event_open (haven't tried though).
You'd think that, but for whatever reason, ftrace/perf oopses still happen.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-04 21:39 Allow disabling perf on x86 Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 1/6] perf, x86, amd: Move __get_ibs_caps into common amd CPU file Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] perf, x86: Make perf amd ibs code depend on PERF_EVENTS and SUP_AMD Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86, ptrace: Ifdef HW_BREAKPOINTS code in ptrace Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] trace: Make UPROBES depend on PERF_EVENTS Andi Kleen
2013-10-05 0:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-05 3:25 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86, kgdb: Support compiling without hardware break points Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 21:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86: Allow disabling HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 22:27 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-05 7:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-05 17:05 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-08 19:55 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-08 20:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-08 20:34 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-08 20:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-09 6:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-06 16:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 6:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 15:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-08 19:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 15:42 ` Vince Weaver
2013-10-08 15:51 ` Dave Jones
2013-10-08 16:22 ` David Ahern
2013-10-08 16:24 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-10-08 19:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-08 20:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-09 3:21 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-09 3:24 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-09 3:39 ` Andi Kleen
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