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    function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer · 0e950173
    Tim Bird authored
    
    
    Add support for tracing_thresh to the function_graph tracer.  This
    version of this feature isolates the checks into new entry and
    return functions, to avoid adding more conditional code into the
    main function_graph paths.
    
    When the tracing_thresh is set and the function graph tracer is
    enabled, only the functions that took longer than the time in
    microseconds that was set in tracing_thresh are recorded. To do this
    efficiently, only the function exits are recorded:
    
     [tracing]# echo 100 > tracing_thresh
     [tracing]# echo function_graph > current_tracer
     [tracing]# cat trace
     # tracer: function_graph
     #
     # CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
     # |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
      1) ! 119.214 us  |  } /* smp_apic_timer_interrupt */
      1)   <========== |
      0) ! 101.527 us  |              } /* __rcu_process_callbacks */
      0) ! 126.461 us  |            } /* rcu_process_callbacks */
      0) ! 145.111 us  |          } /* __do_softirq */
      0) ! 149.667 us  |        } /* do_softirq */
      0) ! 168.817 us  |      } /* irq_exit */
      0) ! 248.254 us  |    } /* smp_apic_timer_interrupt */
    
    Also, add support for specifying tracing_thresh on the kernel
    command line.  When used like so: "tracing_thresh=200 ftrace=function_graph"
    this can be used to analyse system startup.  It is important to disable
    tracing soon after boot, in order to avoid losing the trace data.
    
    Acked-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
    LKML-Reference: <4B87098B.4040308@am.sony.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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