powerpc: tracing: Add powerpc tracepoints for interrupt entry and exit
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:47:42 +0000 (18:47 +0000)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:13:03 +0000 (16:13 +1100)
commit1bf4af165050d90ea6659ffb2536ec8ca783aab5
tree5399a489bba7160befa2550d9165dcf642036cbb
parent196f02bf900c5eb6f85d889c4f70e7cc11fda7e8
powerpc: tracing: Add powerpc tracepoints for interrupt entry and exit

This adds powerpc-specific tracepoints for interrupt entry and exit.

While we already have generic irq_handler_entry and irq_handler_exit
tracepoints there are cases on our virtualised powerpc machines where an
interrupt is presented to the OS, but subsequently handled by the hypervisor.
This means no OS interrupt handler is invoked.

Here is an example on a POWER6 machine with the patch below applied:

<idle>-0     [006]  3243.949840744: irq_entry: pt_regs=c0000000ce31fb10
<idle>-0     [006]  3243.949850520: irq_exit: pt_regs=c0000000ce31fb10

<idle>-0     [007]  3243.950218208: irq_entry: pt_regs=c0000000ce323b10
<idle>-0     [007]  3243.950224080: irq_exit: pt_regs=c0000000ce323b10

<idle>-0     [000]  3244.021879320: irq_entry: pt_regs=c000000000a63aa0
<idle>-0     [000]  3244.021883616: irq_handler_entry: irq=87 handler=eth0
<idle>-0     [000]  3244.021887328: irq_handler_exit: irq=87 return=handled
<idle>-0     [000]  3244.021897408: irq_exit: pt_regs=c000000000a63aa0

Here we see two phantom interrupts (no handler was invoked), followed
by a real interrupt for eth0. Without the tracepoints in this patch we
would have missed the phantom interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/trace.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c