[PATCH] ARM: Stop irqsoff trace on return to user

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Dec 22 18:37:32 EST 2010


On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 07:41:47PM -0800, Todd Poynor wrote:
> If the irqsoff tracer is in use, stop tracing the interrupt disable
> interval when returning to userspace.  Tracing userspace execution
> time as interrupts disabled time is not useful for kernel
> performance analysis purposes, and crowds out more helpful results
> with long userspace execution times.  Some other architectures do
> something similar.
> 
> Only do so if the irqsoff tracer is enabled, to avoid overhead for
> lockdep, which doesn't care about userspace execution time with
> interrupts disabled.

Ok, can you send this to the patch system please?



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