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Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] devfreq_cooling: add trace information

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Hi Steve,

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 06:19:28PM +0100, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:09:31 +0100
> Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Tracing is useful for debugging and performance tuning.  Add similar
> > traces to what's present in the cpu cooling device.
> > 
> > Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> > Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/thermal/devfreq_cooling.c |  6 +++++
> >  include/trace/events/thermal.h    | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/devfreq_cooling.c b/drivers/thermal/devfreq_cooling.c
> > index a032c5d5c374..a27206815066 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/devfreq_cooling.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/devfreq_cooling.c
> > @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
> >  #include <linux/pm_opp.h>
> >  #include <linux/thermal.h>
> >  
> > +#include <trace/events/thermal.h>
> > +
> >  static DEFINE_MUTEX(devfreq_lock);
> >  static DEFINE_IDR(devfreq_idr);
> >  
> > @@ -293,6 +295,9 @@ static int devfreq_cooling_get_requested_power(struct thermal_cooling_device *cd
> >  	/* Get static power */
> >  	static_power = get_static_power(dfc, freq);
> >  
> > +	trace_thermal_power_devfreq_get_power(cdev, status, freq, dyn_power,
> > +					      static_power);
> > +
> >  	*power = dyn_power + static_power;
> >  
> >  	return 0;
> > @@ -348,6 +353,7 @@ static int devfreq_cooling_power2state(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
> >  			break;
> >  
> >  	*state = i;
> > +	trace_thermal_power_devfreq_limit(cdev, freq, *state, power);
> 
> I'm curious, does changing the above to:
> 
> 	trace_thermal_power_devfreq_limit(cdev, freq, i, power);
> 
> make the compiled code better?
> 
> A tracepoint does some whacky things, and gcc may not optimize this.

I've compared the generated assembly on arm, arm64 and x86_64 and both
options generate exactly the same code.

Cheers,
Javi
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[PATCH v6 0/5] Devfreq cooling device Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> - 2015-09-10 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH v6 5/5] PM / devfreq: drop comment about thermal setting max_freq Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> - 2015-09-10 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH v6 1/5] PM / devfreq: cache the last call to get_dev_status() Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> - 2015-09-10 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH v6 4/5] devfreq_cooling: add trace information Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> - 2015-09-10 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] devfreq_cooling: add trace information Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2015-09-10 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] devfreq_cooling: add trace information Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> - 2015-09-18 16:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] devfreq_cooling: add trace information Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2015-09-18 16:10 +0200
  [PATCH v6 2/5] PM / OPP: get the voltage for all OPPs Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> - 2015-09-10 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH v6 3/5] thermal: Add devfreq cooling Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> - 2015-09-10 19:20 +0200

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