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Commit f28d3d53 authored by Anna-Maria Gleixner's avatar Anna-Maria Gleixner Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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timer/trace: Improve timer tracing



Timers are added to the timer wheel off by one. This is required in
case a timer is queued directly before incrementing jiffies to prevent
early timer expiry.

When reading a timer trace and relying only on the expiry time of the timer
in the timer_start trace point and on the now in the timer_expiry_entry
trace point, it seems that the timer fires late. With the current
timer_expiry_entry trace point information only now=jiffies is printed but
not the value of base->clk. This makes it impossible to draw a conclusion
to the index of base->clk and makes it impossible to examine timer problems
without additional trace points.

Therefore add the base->clk value to the timer_expire_entry trace
point, to be able to calculate the index the timer base is located at
during collecting expired timers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190321120921.16463-5-anna-maria@linutronix.de
parent 6849cbb0
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