nohz: Add basic tracing
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:35:50 +0000 (17:35 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:03:09 +0000 (23:03 +0200)
commitcb41a29076e9f95547da46578d5c8804f7b8845d
treeef6bcfbcd99ddbe366f1de94b6aa75da7c6ea55f
parent0637e029392386e6996f5d6574aadccee8315efa
nohz: Add basic tracing

It's not obvious to find out why the full dynticks subsystem
doesn't always stop the tick: whether this is due to kthreads,
posix timers, perf events, etc...

These new tracepoints are here to help the user diagnose
the failures and test this feature.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
include/trace/events/timer.h
kernel/time/tick-sched.c