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Re: [Xen-devel] Question about xentrace to trace s_time_t type of data



On 08/25/2014 02:31 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:24:21PM -0400, Meng Xu wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to trace the scheduler-specific events for debug purpose by
using xentrace (instead of using printk). I read the trace code in credit
and credit2 scheduler (sched_credit.c and sched_credit2.c) and "followed"
the way credit2 wrote.

I added the following code into the burn_budget() in my scheduler file,
sched_rt.c:

         /* TRACE */

         {

             struct {

                 unsigned dom:16,vcpu:16;

                 s_time_t cur_budget;

             } d;

             d.dom = svc->vcpu->domain->domain_id;

             d.vcpu = svc->vcpu->vcpu_id;

             d.cur_budget = svc->cur_budget;

             trace_var(TRC_RT_BUDGET_REPLENISH, 1,

                       sizeof(d),

                       (unsigned char *) &d);
You put the virtual address addresss of your 'd' structure
that is on the stack in the trace file. That does not contain any
data except an address.

No; trace_var() takes a pointer to a struct and a size. Meng is following the example he's seen in sched_credit2.c. :-)

The size of the structure is larger because the structure isn't "packed": by default it will try to make 64-bit elements 64-bit aligned by adding in "padding". You can get around this in one of two ways:

1. Re-arranging the elements so they're naturally aligned. In this case, you could do
struct {
    s_time_t cur_budget;
    unsigned dom:16, vcpu:16;
} d;

2. Adding "__packed" after "struct". This tells the compiler not to try to align the bytes according to their size.

That explains why it's 4 words instead of 3, but I'm still a bit mistified why it's not something like
 [ 00010000 <garbage> 40000000 00000000 ]

I guess try with a packed structure and see what you get. :-)

 -George


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