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Author SHA1 Message Date
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
34839f5a69 tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times
When calculating the average and standard deviation, it is required that
the count be less than UINT_MAX, otherwise the do_div() will get
undefined results. After 2^32 counts of data, the average and standard
deviation should pretty much be set anyway.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-06-06 00:41:38 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
72e2fe38ea tracing: Convert stddev into u64 in tracepoint benchmark
I've been told that do_div() expects an unsigned 64 bit number, and
is undefined if a signed is used. This gave a warning on the MIPS
build. I'm not sure if a signed 64 bit dividend is really an issue
or not, but the calculation this is used for is standard deviation,
and that isn't going to be negative. We can just convert it to
unsigned and be safe.

Reported-by: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-06-05 20:35:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
195d280201 tracing: Remove unused variable in trace_benchmark
Somehow this unused variable warning sneaked past my warnings check
(probably due to it depending on a new config).

kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c: In function 'trace_do_benchmark':
kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c:38:6: warning: unused variable 'seedsq' [-Wunused-variable]
  u64 seedsq;
      ^

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140604160921.4f4e69c4@canb.auug.org.au

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-06-04 13:36:29 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
81dc9f0ef2 tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint
In order to help benchmark the time tracepoints take, a new config
option is added called CONFIG_TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK. When this option
is set a tracepoint is created called "benchmark:benchmark_event".
When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks
run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
"START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.

As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.

An example of the output:

     START
     first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
     last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
     last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
     last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
     last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
     last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
     last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-05-29 22:49:54 -04:00