linux/tools/tracing/rtla
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira e8c44d3b71 rtla/timerlat: Do not stop user-space if a cpu is offline
If no CPU list is passed, timerlat in user-space will dispatch
one thread per sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF). However, not all
CPU might be available, for instance, if HT is disabled.

Currently, rtla timerlat is stopping the session if an user-space
thread cannot set affinity to a CPU, or if a running user-space
thread is killed. However, this is too restrictive.

So, reduce the error to a debug message, and rtla timerlat run as
long as there is at least one user-space thread alive.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/59cf2c882900ab7de91c6ee33b382ac7fa6b4ed0.1694781909.git.bristot@kernel.org

Fixes: cdca4f4e5e ("rtla/timerlat_top: Add timerlat user-space support")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
2023-09-22 14:43:46 +02:00
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src rtla/timerlat: Do not stop user-space if a cpu is offline 2023-09-22 14:43:46 +02:00
.gitignore rtla: Add .gitignore file 2023-04-25 17:01:23 -04:00
Makefile rtla: Add hwnoise tool 2023-02-13 23:56:46 -05:00
README.txt rtla: Remove procps-ng dependency 2022-05-26 15:20:46 -04:00

RTLA: Real-Time Linux Analysis tools

The rtla meta-tool includes a set of commands that aims to analyze
the real-time properties of Linux. 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 the following libraries and tools:

 - libtracefs
 - libtraceevent

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.