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This add an example about how to use funcgraph with latency tracers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190101154614.8887-6-changbin.du@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Changbin Du authored and Steven Rostedt (VMware) committed Feb 6, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -1396,6 +1396,57 @@ enabling function tracing, we incur an added overhead. This
overhead may extend the latency times. But nevertheless, this
trace has provided some very helpful debugging information.

If we prefer function graph output instead of function, we can set
display-graph option::
with echo 1 > options/display-graph

# tracer: irqsoff
#
# irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 4.20.0-rc6+
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# latency: 3751 us, #274/274, CPU#0 | (M:desktop VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
# -----------------
# | task: bash-1507 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
# -----------------
# => started at: free_debug_processing
# => ended at: return_to_handler
#
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| /
# REL TIME CPU TASK/PID |||| DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | |||| | | | | | |
0 us | 0) bash-1507 | d... | 0.000 us | _raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
0 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..1 | 0.378 us | do_raw_spin_trylock();
1 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..2 | | set_track() {
2 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..2 | | save_stack_trace() {
2 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..2 | | __save_stack_trace() {
3 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..2 | | __unwind_start() {
3 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..2 | | get_stack_info() {
3 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..2 | 0.351 us | in_task_stack();
4 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..2 | 1.107 us | }
[...]
3750 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..1 | 0.516 us | do_raw_spin_unlock();
3750 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..1 | 0.000 us | _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore();
3764 us | 0) bash-1507 | d..1 | 0.000 us | tracer_hardirqs_on();
bash-1507 0d..1 3792us : <stack trace>
=> free_debug_processing
=> __slab_free
=> kmem_cache_free
=> vm_area_free
=> remove_vma
=> exit_mmap
=> mmput
=> flush_old_exec
=> load_elf_binary
=> search_binary_handler
=> __do_execve_file.isra.32
=> __x64_sys_execve
=> do_syscall_64
=> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe

preemptoff
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