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| author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2010-07-02 11:07:32 +0800 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2010-07-20 21:52:33 -0400 |
| commit | e870e9a1240bcef1157ffaaf71dac63362e71904 (patch) | |
| tree | b8f57a68ff45b35dab8cdfa474e17622d275bdc6 /kernel/trace/trace_events.c | |
| parent | cc5edb0eb9ce892b530e34a5d110382483587942 (diff) | |
tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recording
We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be
triggered can add big overhead to context switch.
(lmbench context switch test)
-------------------------------------------------
2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
2.19 2.3 2.21 2.56 2.13 2.54 2.07
2.39 2.51 2.35 2.75 2.27 2.81 2.24
The overhead is 6% ~ 11%.
It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch,
sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname.
We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd'
to allow to disable cmdline recording.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_events.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index e8e6043f4d2..09b4fa6e4d3 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -170,6 +170,26 @@ int ftrace_event_reg(struct ftrace_event_call *call, enum trace_reg type) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ftrace_event_reg); +void trace_event_enable_cmd_record(bool enable) +{ + struct ftrace_event_call *call; + + mutex_lock(&event_mutex); + list_for_each_entry(call, &ftrace_events, list) { + if (!(call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED)) + continue; + + if (enable) { + tracing_start_cmdline_record(); + call->flags |= TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD; + } else { + tracing_stop_cmdline_record(); + call->flags &= ~TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD; + } + } + mutex_unlock(&event_mutex); +} + static int ftrace_event_enable_disable(struct ftrace_event_call *call, int enable) { @@ -179,13 +199,19 @@ static int ftrace_event_enable_disable(struct ftrace_event_call *call, case 0: if (call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED) { call->flags &= ~TRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED; - tracing_stop_cmdline_record(); + if (call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD) { + tracing_stop_cmdline_record(); + call->flags &= ~TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD; + } call->class->reg(call, TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER); } break; case 1: if (!(call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED)) { - tracing_start_cmdline_record(); + if (trace_flags & TRACE_ITER_RECORD_CMD) { + tracing_start_cmdline_record(); + call->flags |= TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD; + } ret = call->class->reg(call, TRACE_REG_REGISTER); if (ret) { tracing_stop_cmdline_record(); |