tracing/branch-tracer: adapt to the stat tracing API
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:25:38 +0000 (23:25 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:55:46 +0000 (12:55 +0100)
commite302cf3f961ceb54c1dd0aff7ba8531df83be07a
tree090e3ebba0745f59709f06d15c5ae7a235fd1840
parentdbd0b4b33074aa6b7832a9d9a5bd985eca5c1aa2
tracing/branch-tracer: adapt to the stat tracing API

Impact: refactor the branch tracer

This patch adapts the branch tracer to the tracing API.

This is a proof of concept because the branch tracer implements two
"stat tracing" that were split in two files.

So I added an option to the branch tracer: stat_all_branch.
If it is set, then trace_stat will output all of the branches
entries stats. Otherwise, it will print the annotated branches.

Its is a kind of quick trick, waiting for a better solution.

By default, the annotated branches stat are sorted by incorrect branch
prediction percentage.

Ie:

 correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
       0        1 100 native_smp_prepare_cpus        smpboot.c            1228
       0        1 100 hpet_rtc_timer_reinit          hpet.c               1057
       0    18032 100 sched_info_queued              sched_stats.h        223
       0      684 100 yield_task_fair                sched_fair.c         984
       0      282 100 pre_schedule_rt                sched_rt.c           1263
       0    13414 100 sched_info_dequeued            sched_stats.h        178
       0    21724 100 sched_info_switch              sched_stats.h        270
       0        1 100 get_signal_to_deliver          signal.c             1820
       0        8 100 __cancel_work_timer            workqueue.c          560
       0      212 100 verify_export_symbols          module.c             1509
       0       17 100 __rmqueue_fallback             page_alloc.c         793
       0       43 100 clear_page_mlock               internal.h           129
       0      124 100 try_to_unmap_anon              rmap.c               1021
       0       53 100 try_to_unmap_anon              rmap.c               1013
       0        6 100 vma_address                    rmap.c               232
       0     3301 100 try_to_unmap_file              rmap.c               1082
       0      466 100 try_to_unmap_file              rmap.c               1077
       0        1 100 mem_cgroup_create              memcontrol.c         1090
       0        3 100 inotify_find_update_watch      inotify.c            726
       2    30163  99 perf_counter_task_sched_out    perf_counter.c       385
       1     2935  99 percpu_free                    allocpercpu.c        138
    1544   297672  99 dentry_lru_del_init            dcache.c             153
       8     1074  99 input_pass_event               input.c              86
    1390    76781  98 mapping_unevictable            pagemap.h            50
     280     6665  95 pick_next_task_rt              sched_rt.c           889
     750     4826  86 next_pidmap                    pid.c                194
       2        8  80 blocking_notifier_chain_regist notifier.c           220
      36      130  78 ioremap_pte_range              ioremap.c            22
    1093     3247  74 IS_ERR                         err.h                34
    1023     2908  73 sched_slice                    sched_fair.c         445
      22       60  73 disk_put_part                  genhd.h              206
[...]

It enables a developer to quickly address the source of incorrect branch
predictions.  Note that this sorting would be better with a second sort on
the number of incorrect predictions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c