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| author | Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> | 2015-10-13 10:09:11 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-10-20 11:30:55 +0300 |
| commit | 43e41adc9e8c36545888d78fed2ef8d102a938dc (patch) | |
| tree | 0051dce83d96592204b55d24d5b2ff114d983857 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | 24f1a79a5fc10858e05ee0bf651ec99abfc0319b (diff) | |
| download | linux-43e41adc9e8c36545888d78fed2ef8d102a938dc.tar.xz | |
perf record: Add ability to sample call branches
This patch add a new branch type sampling filter to perf record.
It is named 'call' and maps to PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL. It samples
direct call branches only, unlike 'any_call' which includes indirect
calls as well.
$ perf record -j call -e cycles .....
The man page is updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444720151-10275-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 2e9ce77b5e14..b027d28658f2 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ following filters are defined: - any_call: any function call or system call - any_ret: any function return or system call return - ind_call: any indirect branch + - call: direct calls, including far (to/from kernel) calls - u: only when the branch target is at the user level - k: only when the branch target is in the kernel - hv: only when the target is at the hypervisor level |