BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt, branch dev

perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out

2015-06-19T21:27:13+00:00

The time out to limit the individual proc map processing was hard code to 500ms. This patch introduce a new option --proc-map-timeout to make the time limit configurable. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ying Huang Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434549071-25611-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Amend option summaries

2015-06-10T15:00:27+00:00

Because there's too many options and I cannot read, I frequently get confused between -c and -P, and try to do things like: perf record -P 50000 -- foo Which does not work; try and make the option description slightly longer and hopefully less confusing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150610144850.GP19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net [ Do those changes on the man page as well ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Document relation of per-thread event count feature

2015-05-12T12:59:48+00:00

The 'perf record -s' and 'perf report -T' should be used together to see per-thread event counts. Document the relation of these commands. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431184784-30525-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode support

2015-05-05T21:13:01+00:00

Add a new option and support for Instruction Tracing Snapshot Mode. When the new option is selected, no AUX area tracing data is captured until a signal (SIGUSR2) is received. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-10-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Extend -m option for AUX area tracing mmap pages

2015-04-29T13:37:52+00:00

Extend the -m option so that the number of mmap pages for AUX area tracing can be specified by adding a comma followed by the number of pages. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428594864-29309-7-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Add clockid parameter

2015-04-08T13:04:55+00:00

Teach perf-record about the new perf_event_attr::{use_clockid, clockid} fields. Add a simple parameter to set the clock (if any) to be used for the events to be recorded into the data file. Since we store the entire perf_event_attr in the EVENT_DESC section we also already store the used clockid in the data file. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: David Ahern Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Stultz Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Yunlong Song Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150407154851.GR23123@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net [ Conditionally define CLOCK_BOOTTIME, at least rhel6 doesn't have it - dsahern Ditto for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, sles11sp2 doesn't have it - yunlong.song ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Document --group option

2015-03-02T15:04:45+00:00

The 'perf record --group' option lacks documentation and confuses users. As -e/--event option already supports group spec, it should not be used anymore. Also add a short description of event group itself. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425266013-5034-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Get rid of -l option from Documentation

2015-03-02T15:04:07+00:00

The perf record does not support -l option anymore, so nuke it. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425272038-10406-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf record: Support recording running/enabled time

2015-02-25T15:42:23+00:00

Add an option to perf record to record running/enabled time for read events, similar to what stat does. This is useful to understand multiplexing problems. Right now the report support is not great, but at least report -D already supports it. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424819620-16043-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org [ Fixed the Documentation entry to match the OPT_BOOLEAN one ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Enable LBR call stack support

2015-02-18T16:16:17+00:00

Currently, there are two call chain recording options, fp and dwarf. Haswell has a new feature that utilizes the existing LBR facility to record call chains. Kernel side LBR support code provides this as a third option to record call chains. This patch enables the lbr call stack support on the tooling side. LBR call stack has some limitations: - It reuses current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and branch record can not be enabled at the same time. - It is only available for user-space callchains. However, it also offers some advantages: - LBR call stack can work on user apps which don't have frame-pointers or dwarf debug info compiled. It is a good alternative when nothing else works. Tested-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Cody P Schafer Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Jacob Shin Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masanari Iida Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Rodrigo Campos Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420482185-29830-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar