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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2016-03-28 20:45:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2016-03-30 17:14:09 +0300 |
| commit | d1706b39f0af6901ab2a5e2ebb210b53c1a5bdc7 (patch) | |
| tree | 4bee0f637581706387688651a57fb867c7f6e559 /tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt | |
| parent | f7380c12ec6cfd69f274ba6181cd01c764f877bb (diff) | |
| download | linux-d1706b39f0af6901ab2a5e2ebb210b53c1a5bdc7.tar.xz | |
perf tools: Add support for skipping itrace instructions
When using 'perf script' to look at PT traces it is often useful to
ignore the initialization code at the beginning.
On larger traces which may have many millions of instructions in
initialization code doing that in a pipeline can be very slow, with perf
script spending a lot of CPU time calling printf and writing data.
This patch adds an extension to the --itrace argument that skips 'n'
events (instructions, branches or transactions) at the beginning. This
is much more efficient.
v2:
Add support for BTS (Adrian Hunter)
Document in itrace.txt
Fix branch check
Check transactions and instructions too
Committer note:
To test intel_pt one needs to make sure VT-x isn't active, i.e.
stopping KVM guests on the test machine, as described by Andi Kleen
at http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301234953.GD23621@tassilo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459187142-20035-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt index be764f9ec769..c6c8318e38a2 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt @@ -672,6 +672,7 @@ The letters are: d create a debug log g synthesize a call chain (use with i or x) l synthesize last branch entries (use with i or x) + s skip initial number of events "Instructions" events look like they were recorded by "perf record -e instructions". @@ -730,6 +731,12 @@ from one sample to the next. To disable trace decoding entirely, use the option --no-itrace. +It is also possible to skip events generated (instructions, branches, transactions) +at the beginning. This is useful to ignore initialization code. + + --itrace=i0nss1000000 + +skips the first million instructions. dump option ----------- |