[XenPPC] [PATCH] Simple instruction trace facility

[Amos Waterland <apw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This very simple patch prints sampled statistics every three seconds
about what has been executing on a particular physical processor.
Example output for cpu 3 on a JS21 is:

 (XEN)    0            44efbc: 166
 (XEN)    1            42a810: 150090839
 (XEN)    2  c0000000004ea660: 1
 (XEN)    3  c000000000037ba0: 1

For reference, 42a810 is in Xen's idle loop, and 44efbc is in it's sleep
implementation.

I don't think it is for submission, hopefully we will soon have a proper
high-performance trace facility accessed via an hcall and logic in the
dom0 kernel that allows a userspace consumer to drain it.  I have
another version of this patch with per-cpu buffers and so on, but I'd
rather we focus on a real tracing facility.  Is anybody working on this?

I am posting it here in case it is useful to other people, and because I
will soon post some statistics for domUs on secondary processors
gathered with it.

---

 exceptions.c |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)

diff -r 82ddfe69c62e xen/arch/powerpc/exceptions.c
--- a/xen/arch/powerpc/exceptions.c     Tue Sep 12 06:48:32 2006 -0400
+++ b/xen/arch/powerpc/exceptions.c     Wed Sep 13 17:50:43 2006 -0400
@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@
 
 #undef DEBUG
 
+#define TRACE_DOMAINS
+
+#ifdef TRACE_DOMAINS
+#define MAX_IARS 1000
+static long iars[MAX_IARS][2];
+static long last_dump_time = 0;
+static int cpu_to_trace = 3;
+#endif
+
 extern ulong ppc_do_softirq(ulong orig_msr);
 extern void do_timer(struct cpu_user_regs *regs);
 extern void do_dec(struct cpu_user_regs *regs);
@@ -41,6 +50,41 @@ void do_timer(struct cpu_user_regs *regs
     /* Set HDEC high so it stops firing and can be reprogrammed by
      * set_preempt() */
     mthdec(INT_MAX);
+
+#ifdef TRACE_DOMAINS
+    if (smp_processor_id() == cpu_to_trace) {
+       int i;
+       long iar = regs->pc;
+
+       for (i = 0; iars[i][0] != 0 && i < MAX_IARS; i++) {
+           if (iars[i][0] == iar) {
+               iars[i][1]++;
+               i = MAX_IARS;
+               break;
+           }
+       }
+
+       if (i < MAX_IARS) {
+           iars[i][0] = iar;
+           iars[i][1] = 1;
+       }
+    }
+
+    if (smp_processor_id() == 0) {
+       int i;
+       long now = mftb();
+       long dump_interval = 3 * timebase_freq;
+       
+       if (now > last_dump_time + dump_interval) {
+           last_dump_time = now;
+           
+           for (i = 0; iars[i][0] != 0 && i < MAX_IARS; i++) {
+               printk("%4d %17lx: %ld\n", i, iars[i][0], iars[i][1]);
+           }
+       }
+    }
+#endif
+
     raise_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ);
 }
 

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