[tesla-dev] powertop: aggregate wakeups

[Li, Aubrey]

Rafael Vanoni wrote:

> Aubrey Li wrote:
>> 2008/5/19 Rafael Vanoni <Rafael.Vanoni at sun.com>:
>>> I've added xcalls to the event report and the number of wakeups x
>>> events are more cohesive. This diff takes a shot at reporting that,
>>> let me know what you think. 
>>> 
>>> A related problem is the number of xcalls that libdtrace is
>>> generating, which puts powertop higher in the xcalls report than
>>> we'd like. I've been looking at this and emailed dtrace-discuss
>>> about it. 
>>> 
>> Just said on dtrace-discuss, you can use the dtrace stack() to find
>> the root cause. 
>> 
>> Yes, xcall is an event powertop should report, currently xcall
>> dtrace probe doesn't take the function as an argument, that prevents
>> us getting the caller easily. Is it possible to change the current
>> probe? 
>> 
>> execname may be acceptable, but we should exclude execname=powertop,
>> what do you think? 
>> 
> 
> 
> Here's a patch for these changes.
> 
> thanks
> Rafael

Looks good to me, please feel free to commit into repo.

Thanks,
-Aubrey