linux/tools/tracing/rtla
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira 1eceb2fc2c rtla/osnoise: Add osnoise top mode
The rtla osnoise tool is an interface for the osnoise tracer. The
osnoise tracer dispatches a kernel thread per-cpu. These threads read
the time in a loop while with preemption, softirqs and IRQs enabled,
thus allowing all the sources of osnoise during its execution. The
osnoise threads take note of the entry and exit point of any source
of interferences, increasing a per-cpu interference counter. The
osnoise tracer also saves an interference counter for each source
of interference.

The rtla osnoise top mode displays information about the periodic
summary from the osnoise tracer.

One example of rtla osnoise top output is:

[root@alien ~]# rtla osnoise top -c 0-3 -d 1m -q -r 900000 -P F:1
                                         Operating System Noise
duration:   0 00:01:00 | time is in us
CPU Period       Runtime        Noise  % CPU Aval   Max Noise   Max Single          HW          NMI          IRQ      Softirq       Thread
  0 #58         52200000         1031    99.99802          91           60           0            0        52285            0          101
  1 #59         53100000            5    99.99999           5            5           0            9        53122            0           18
  2 #59         53100000            7    99.99998           7            7           0            8        53115            0           18
  3 #59         53100000         8274    99.98441         277           23           0            9        53778            0          660

"rtla osnoise top --help" works and provide information about the
available options.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0d796993abf587ae5a170bb8415c49368d4999e1.1639158831.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2022-01-13 17:02:42 -05:00
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src rtla/osnoise: Add osnoise top mode 2022-01-13 17:02:42 -05:00
Makefile rtla: Add osnoise tool 2022-01-13 17:02:42 -05:00
README.txt rtla: Real-Time Linux Analysis tool 2022-01-13 17:02:42 -05:00

RTLA: Real-Time Linux Analysis tools

The rtla is a meta-tool that includes a set of commands that
aims to analyze the real-time properties of Linux. But, instead of
testing Linux as a black box, rtla leverages kernel tracing
capabilities to provide precise information about the properties
and root causes of unexpected results.

Installing RTLA

RTLA depends on some libraries and tools. More precisely, it depends on the
following libraries:

 - libtracefs
 - libtraceevent
 - procps

It also depends on python3-docutils to compile man pages.

For development, we suggest the following steps for compiling rtla:

  $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git
  $ cd libtraceevent/
  $ make
  $ sudo make install
  $ cd ..
  $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git
  $ cd libtracefs/
  $ make
  $ sudo make install
  $ cd ..
  $ cd $rtla_src
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

For further information, please refer to the rtla man page.