profiling functions called in interrupt context

[rohan puri]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Amit Nagal <helloin.amit at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:05 AM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Amit Nagal <helloin.amit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi ,
> >>
> >> i want to measure time spend in a callback function called from
> >> interrupt context .
> >> since the time spend will be in us / ns , what kernel apis can i use
> >> to measure it ?
> >>
> >> also since i want to use it in interrupt context  , kernel time
> >> measurement apis should not sleep .
> >> i am using embedded arm target , and tools like OProfile  are not
> >> available .
> >>
> >> can i be guided which  kernel time measurement apis shall i use to
> >> measure time in a interrupt callback ?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Amit Nagal
> >
> > For this you can make use of ftrace.
> >
> > Refer link http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rohan
> >
>
> Tools like ftrace are not available to me in my embedded arm target .
> So i want to use kernel apis to deal with time measurement in
> interrupt context .
>
> Regards
> Amit Nagal
>
Hi Amit,

I think ftrace can be enabled and used on arm arch.
Please Refer http://www.omappedia.org/wiki/Installing_and_Using_Ftrace

Regards,
Rohan
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