[PATCH] sleep profiling
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:37:24 +0000 (20:37 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:39:36 +0000 (08:39 -0800)
commitece8a684c75df215320b4155944979e3f78c5c93
tree2a65e786dd70ab368c12836a39c36070c0e4974f
parent70888bd5b70579e278d5ef1b7e1ec6a420d38b9e
[PATCH] sleep profiling

Implement prof=sleep profiling.  TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken
as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit
for the call site that initiated the sleep.

Sample readprofile output on i386:

   306 ps2_sendbyte                               1.3973
   432 call_usermodehelper_keys                   1.9548
   484 ps2_command                                0.6453
   790 __driver_attach                            4.7879
  1593 msleep                                    44.2500
  3976 sync_buffer                               64.1290
  4076 do_lookup                                 12.4648
  8587 sync_page                                122.6714
 20820 total                                      0.0067

(NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from
deep within the wakeup path.)

akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched.  lock_sock(), msleep(), others..

akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise.  Presumably doing disk
reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex.

[akpm@osdl.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
include/linux/profile.h
kernel/profile.c
kernel/sched.c