Re: [PATCH] [RFC] tracing xsave operations

2015-04-23 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:42:12 -0700 Dave Hansen wrote: > > There has been a glut of tough debug issues lately that all come > back to the xsave code. This trace point helped us find and fix > a long-lived bug today, just from the data it showed. > > But, the xsave operations are in a header and

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] tracing xsave operations

2015-04-22 Thread Andi Kleen
> Am I doing something wrong? Are there good alternatives for when > we want to trace something that's done in a header? I had to out of line multiple inlines too to trace them. Like the MSR tracing. The trace includes just have too many dependencies. Most of it comes from RCU i believe. It wou