Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Add basic tracing support for m68k

[Jean-Michel Hautbois <jeanmichel.hautbois@yoseli.org>]

Hi Steve,

On 15/11/2024 20:55, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:33:06 +0100
> Jean-Michel Hautbois <jeanmichel.hautbois@yoseli.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> On 15/11/2024 16:25, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:26:07 +0100
>>> Jean-Michel Hautbois <jeanmichel.hautbois@yoseli.org> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Nevertheless it sounds like a really high latency for wake_up().
>>>>
>>>> I have a custom driver which basically gets an IRQ, and calls wake_up on
>>>> a read() call. This wake_up() on a high cpu usage can be more than 1ms !
>>>> Even with a fifo/99 priority for my kernel thread !
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if it rings any bell ?
>>>> I can obviously do more tests if it can help getting down to the issue :-).
>>>
>>> Try running timerlat.
>>
>> Thanks !
>> Here is what I get:
>> # echo timerlat > current_tracer
>> # echo 1 > events/osnoise/enable
>> # echo 25 > osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us
>> # tail -10 trace
>>               bash-224     [000] d.h..   153.268917: #77645 context  irq timer_latency     45056 ns
>>               bash-224     [000] dnh..   153.268987: irq_noise: timer:206  start 153.268879083 duration 93957 ns
>>               bash-224     [000] d....   153.269056: thread_noise:  bash:224 start 153.268905324 duration 71045 ns
>>         timerlat/0-271     [000] .....   153.269103: #77645 context thread timer_latency    230656 ns
>>               bash-224     [000] d.h..   153.269735: irq_noise: timer:206 start 153.269613847 duration 103558 ns
>>               bash-224     [000] d.h..   153.269911: #77646 context irq timer_latency     40640 ns
>>               bash-224     [000] dnh..   153.269982: irq_noise: timer:206 start 153.269875367 duration 93190 ns
>>               bash-224     [000] d....   153.270053: thread_noise: bash:224 start 153.269900969 duration 72709 ns
>>         timerlat/0-271     [000] .....   153.270100: #77646 context thread timer_latency    227008 ns
>>         timerlat/0-271     [000] .....   153.270155: timerlat_main: stop tracing hit on cpu 0
>>
>> It looks awful, right ?
> 
> awful is relative ;-) If that was on x86, I would say it was bad.
> 
> Also check out rtla (in tools/trace/rtla).

Thanks ! I knew it only by name, so I watched a presentation recorded 
during OSS summit given by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira who wrote it and 
it is really impressive !

I had to modify the source code a bit, as it does not compile with my 
uclibc toolchain:
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile.rtla 
b/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile.rtla
index cc1d6b615475..b22016a88d09 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile.rtla
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile.rtla
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ $(call allow-override,LD_SO_CONF_PATH,/etc/ld.so.conf.d/)
  $(call allow-override,LDCONFIG,ldconfig)
  export CC AR STRIP PKG_CONFIG LD_SO_CONF_PATH LDCONFIG

-FOPTS          := -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions 
-fstack-protector-strong   \
+FOPTS          := -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions \
                 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection
  WOPTS          := -O -Wall -Werror=format-security 
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2             \
                 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.c 
b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.c
index 01dbf9a6b5a5..92ad2388b123 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.c
@@ -15,10 +15,16 @@
  #include <pthread.h>
  #include <sys/wait.h>
  #include <sys/prctl.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>

  #include "utils.h"
  #include "timerlat_u.h"

+static inline pid_t gettid(void)
+{
+       return syscall(SYS_gettid);
+}
+
  /*
   * This is the user-space main for the tool timerlatu/ threads.
   *
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c
index 9ac71a66840c..b754dc1016a4 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c
@@ -229,6 +229,9 @@ long parse_ns_duration(char *val)
  #elif __s390x__
  # define __NR_sched_setattr    345
  # define __NR_sched_getattr    346
+#elif __m68k__
+# define __NR_sched_setattr    349
+# define __NR_sched_getattr    350
  #endif

  #define SCHED_DEADLINE         6

But it is not enough, as executing rtla fails with a segfault.
I can dump a core, but I could not manage to build gdb for my board so I 
can't debug it (I don't know how to debug a coredump without gdb !).

JM