[PATCH] tracecmd: --poll option is not passed down to guest
Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:43:37 -0300
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-trace-devel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <aPu6yVSp0BtyNXc2@tpad> |
commit e7ffcbda9d62855ec30dc36ef5bebcb669321073 added the
--poll option to avoid waking up the trace buffer reader
from an isolated CPU:
trace-cmd: Add option to poll trace buffers
Waiting for data to be available on the trace ring-buffers may trigger
IPIs. This might generate unacceptable trace noise when debugging low
latency or real time systems. So introduce the poll option. When
enabled, it forces trace-cmd to use O_NONBLOCK. The drawback to using it
is that traces will be extracted by busy waiting, which will
unnecessarily hog the CPUs, so only use when really needed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
However the --poll option is not passed down to the guest, which can cause
the wakeup (and associated latency) in the guest:
84221.535329: kvm_entry: vcpu 1 rip 0xfff0
84221.535341: write_msr: 6e0, value 97374f0241f8
84221.535343: sched_switch: cyclictest:6563 [4] S ==> swapper/1:0 [120]
84221.535343: ipi_send_cpu: cpu=1 callsite=irq_work_queue+0x2f callback=rb_wake_up_waiters+0x0
84221.535344: write_msr: 83f, value f6
84221.535345: irq_work_entry: vector=246
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
diff --git a/tracecmd/trace-record.c b/tracecmd/trace-record.c
index 4e1157c9..ac42d428 100644
--- a/tracecmd/trace-record.c
+++ b/tracecmd/trace-record.c
@@ -6220,9 +6220,16 @@ static void add_arg(struct buffer_instance *instance,
{
char *ptr, *arg;
int i, ret;
+ int long_opt;
+
+ long_opt = 0;
+ for (i = 0; long_options[i].name; i++) {
+ if (long_options[i].val == c)
+ long_opt = 1;
+ }
/* Short or long arg */
- if (!(c & 0x80)) {
+ if (long_opt == 0) {
ptr = strchr(opts, c);
if (!ptr)
return; /* Not found? */