tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recording
We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be
triggered can add big overhead to context switch.
(lmbench context switch test)
-------------------------------------------------
2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
2.19 2.3 2.21 2.56 2.13 2.54 2.07
2.39 2.51 2.35 2.75 2.27 2.81 2.24
The overhead is 6% ~ 11%.
It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch,
sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname.
We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd'
to allow to disable cmdline recording.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 84d3f12..7778f06 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -591,6 +591,7 @@
TRACE_ITER_LATENCY_FMT = 0x20000,
TRACE_ITER_SLEEP_TIME = 0x40000,
TRACE_ITER_GRAPH_TIME = 0x80000,
+ TRACE_ITER_RECORD_CMD = 0x100000,
};
/*
@@ -723,6 +724,8 @@
return 0;
}
+extern void trace_event_enable_cmd_record(bool enable);
+
extern struct mutex event_mutex;
extern struct list_head ftrace_events;