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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-12-02 10:25:28 -0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-12-04 23:08:40 -0200
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perf tools: Ask for ID PERF_SAMPLE_ info on all PERF_RECORD_ events
So that we can use -T == --timestamp, asking for PERF_SAMPLE_TIME: $ perf record -aT $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_ <SNIP> 3 5951915425 0x47530 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff8138c1a2 period: 215979 cpu:3 3 5952026879 0x47588 [0x90]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff810cb480 period: 215979 cpu:3 3 5952059959 0x47618 [0x38]: PERF_RECORD_FORK(6853:6853):(16811:16811) 3 5952138878 0x47650 [0x78]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 16811/16811: 0xffffffff811bac35 period: 431478 cpu:3 3 5952375068 0x476c8 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_COMM: find:6853 3 5952395923 0x476f8 [0x50]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x400000(0x25000) @ 0]: /usr/bin/find 3 5952413756 0x47748 [0xa0]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff810d080f period: 859332 cpu:3 3 5952419837 0x477e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44600000(0x21d000) @ 0]: /lib64/ld-2.5.so 3 5952437929 0x47840 [0x48]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x7fff7e1c9000(0x1000) @ 0x7fff7e1c9000]: [vdso] 3 5952570127 0x47888 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f46200000(0x218000) @ 0]: /lib64/libselinux.so.1 3 5952623637 0x478e0 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44a00000(0x356000) @ 0]: /lib64/libc-2.5.so 3 5952675720 0x47938 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f44e00000(0x204000) @ 0]: /lib64/libdl-2.5.so 3 5952710080 0x47990 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP 6853/6853: [0x3f45a00000(0x246000) @ 0]: /lib64/libsepol.so.1 3 5952847802 0x479e8 [0x58]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 1): 6853/6853: 0xffffffff813897f0 period: 1142536 cpu:3 <SNIP> First column is the cpu and the second the timestamp. That way we can investigate problems in the event stream. If the new perf binary is run on an older kernel, it will disable this feature automatically. Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <1291318772-30880-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index b34de9291c27..699dd2149c4b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ static const char *output_name = "perf.data";
static int group = 0;
static int realtime_prio = 0;
static bool raw_samples = false;
+static bool sample_id_all_avail = true;
static bool system_wide = false;
static pid_t target_pid = -1;
static pid_t target_tid = -1;
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ static bool call_graph = false;
static bool inherit_stat = false;
static bool no_samples = false;
static bool sample_address = false;
+static bool sample_time = false;
static bool no_buildid = false;
static bool no_buildid_cache = false;
@@ -283,6 +285,9 @@ static void create_counter(int counter, int cpu)
if (system_wide)
attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_CPU;
+ if (sample_time)
+ attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_TIME;
+
if (raw_samples) {
attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_TIME;
attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_RAW;
@@ -299,6 +304,8 @@ static void create_counter(int counter, int cpu)
attr->disabled = 1;
attr->enable_on_exec = 1;
}
+retry_sample_id:
+ attr->sample_id_all = sample_id_all_avail ? 1 : 0;
for (thread_index = 0; thread_index < thread_num; thread_index++) {
try_again:
@@ -315,6 +322,12 @@ try_again:
else if (err == ENODEV && cpu_list) {
die("No such device - did you specify"
" an out-of-range profile CPU?\n");
+ } else if (err == EINVAL && sample_id_all_avail) {
+ /*
+ * Old kernel, no attr->sample_id_type_all field
+ */
+ sample_id_all_avail = false;
+ goto retry_sample_id;
}
/*
@@ -661,6 +674,8 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
post_processing_offset = lseek(output, 0, SEEK_CUR);
+ perf_session__set_sample_id_all(session, sample_id_all_avail);
+
if (pipe_output) {
err = event__synthesize_attrs(&session->header,
process_synthesized_event,
@@ -841,6 +856,7 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
"per thread counts"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "data", &sample_address,
"Sample addresses"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN('T', "timestamp", &sample_time, "Sample timestamps"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-samples", &no_samples,
"don't sample"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('N', "no-buildid-cache", &no_buildid_cache,