From: Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ltt-dev@shafik.org,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Douglas Niehaus <niehaus@eecs.ku.edu>,
systemtap@sources.redhat.com,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Linux Kernel Markers
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OFAB3D8A6C.1643F2D3-ON80257262.000581E4-80257262.00088F04@uk.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061220235216.GA28643@Krystal>
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote on 20/12/2006
23:52:16:
> Hi,
>
> You will find, in the following posts, the latest revision of the Linux
Kernel
> Markers. Due to the need some tracing projects (LTTng, SystemTAP) has of
this
> kind of mechanism, it could be nice to consider it for mainstream
inclusion.
>
> The following patches apply on 2.6.20-rc1-git7.
>
> Signed-off-by : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Mathiue, FWIW I like this idea. A few years ago I implemented something
similar, but that had no explicit clients. Consequently I made my hooks
code more generalized than is needed in practice. I do remember that Karim
reworked the LTT instrumentation to use hooks and it worked fine.
You've got the same optimizations for x86 by modifying an instruction's
immediate operand and thus avoiding a d-cache hit. The only real caveat is
the need to avoid the unsynchronised cross modification erratum. Which
means that all processors will need to issue a serializing operation before
executing a Marker whose state is changed. How is that handled?
One additional thing we did, which might be useful at some future point,
was adding a /proc interface. We reflected the current instrumentation
though /proc and gave the status of each hook. We even talked about being
able to enable or disabled instrumentation by writing to /proc but I don't
think we ever implemented this.
It's high time we settled the issue of instrumentation. It gets my vote,
Good luck!
Richard
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Richard J Moore
IBM Linux Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-13 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-21 0:01 Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-12-21 0:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] Linux Kernel Markers : kconfig menus Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-12-21 0:03 ` [PATCH 3/4] Linux Kernel Markers : i386 optimisation Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-12-21 0:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] Linux Kernel Markers : powerpc optimisation Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-12-21 0:07 ` [PATCH 1/4] Linux Kernel Markers : Architecture agnostic code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-13 1:33 ` Richard J Moore [this message]
2007-01-13 5:51 ` [PATCH 0/4] Linux Kernel Markers Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-16 17:47 ` [PATCH 0/4 update] Linux Kernel Markers - i386 : pIII erratum 49 : XMC Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-16 18:35 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-01-16 21:28 ` [PATCH 0/4 update] kprobes and traps Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-17 12:26 ` S. P. Prasanna
2007-01-16 18:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] lockdep reentrancy Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-24 4:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-24 17:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-16 18:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] lockdep missing barrier() Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-24 4:28 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-24 17:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-24 17:30 ` [PATCH] order of lockdep off/on in vprintk() should be changed Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-24 18:01 ` [PATCH] minimize lockdep_on/off side-effect Mathieu Desnoyers
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