[ltt-dev] [patch 6/9] LTTng instrumentation - timer

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Tue Mar 24 16:47:19 EDT 2009


* Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > the init methods are missing from your patch entirely - and the rest 
> > is partially incomplete as well.
> > 
> > Instrumentation of the del_timer() variants is missing. For a 
> > complete lifetime analysis of timers this cannot be left out.
> 
> Look at the debugobjects hooks. They cover the complete timer life 
> time already.
> 
> Piggypacking tracepoints on those would simplify maintenance and 
> reduce the number of extra lines in the code.

makes sense. They dont cover itimers nor hrtimers though.

	Ingo




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