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authorDaniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>2021-06-22 16:42:22 +0200
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2021-06-25 18:23:22 -0400
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trace/hwlat: Implement the per-cpu mode
Implements the per-cpu mode in which a sampling thread is created for each cpu in the "cpus" (and tracing_mask). The per-cpu mode has the potention to speed up the hwlat detection by running on multiple CPUs at the same time, at the cost of higher cpu usage with irqs disabled. Use with care. [ Changed get_cpu_data() to static. Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> ] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ec06d0ab340e8460d293772faba19ad8a5c371aa.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Kate Carcia <kcarcia@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Cc: Clark Willaims <williams@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst b/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst
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--- a/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst
@@ -78,10 +78,11 @@ in /sys/kernel/tracing:
- hwlat_detector/window - amount of time between (width) runs (usecs)
- hwlat_detector/mode - the thread mode
-By default, the hwlat detector's kernel thread will migrate across each CPU
+By default, one hwlat detector's kernel thread will migrate across each CPU
specified in cpumask at the beginning of a new window, in a round-robin
fashion. This behavior can be changed by changing the thread mode,
the available options are:
- none: do not force migration
- round-robin: migrate across each CPU specified in cpumask [default]
+ - per-cpu: create one thread for each cpu in tracing_cpumask