To: Jeff Muizelaar <jeff@infidigm.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using sched_clock for mmio-trace
References: <20070216013024.GA32287@infidigm.net>
From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: 16 Feb 2007 11:30:56 -0500
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Jeff Muizelaar <jeff@infidigm.net> writes:

> I've built a tool with the goal of logging mmio writes and reads by
> device drivers. See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MmioTrace.

FWIW, this is exactly a type of add-on trace patch that could be
mooted by adoption of the ltt/systemtap "marker" facility.  With it,
you would not need so much code (e.g. no new user-space tools at all,
reuse of common tracing buffer logic, permanently placed hooks) and
would probably get more utility.

> [...]  The question is, what [timer] api should I be using? I need
> something that can be called from inside interrupt handlers, and
> obviously the more accurate and the lower the overhead the better.

We in systemtap land have the same problem, and so far made do with
slightly postprocessed per-cpu TSC values.


- FChE
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