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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt index 6967e9b02be5..5f54feb19977 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt @@ -151,25 +151,45 @@ struct { HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY = 13, -String lists defining the core and CPU threads topology. -The string lists are followed by a variable length array -which contains core_id and socket_id of each cpu. -The number of entries can be determined by the size of the -section minus the sizes of both string lists. - struct { + /* + * First revision of HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY + * + * See 'struct perf_header_string_list' definition earlier + * in this file. + */ + struct perf_header_string_list cores; /* Variable length */ struct perf_header_string_list threads; /* Variable length */ + + /* + * Second revision of HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY, older tools + * will not consider what comes next + */ + struct { uint32_t core_id; uint32_t socket_id; } cpus[nr]; /* Variable length records */ + /* 'nr' comes from previously processed HEADER_NRCPUS's nr_cpu_avail */ + + /* + * Third revision of HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY, older tools + * will not consider what comes next + */ + + struct perf_header_string_list dies; /* Variable length */ + uint32_t die_id[nr_cpus_avail]; /* from previously processed HEADER_NR_CPUS, VLA */ }; Example: - sibling cores : 0-3 + sibling sockets : 0-8 + sibling dies : 0-3 + sibling dies : 4-7 sibling threads : 0-1 sibling threads : 2-3 + sibling threads : 4-5 + sibling threads : 6-7 HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY = 14, @@ -272,6 +292,69 @@ struct { Two uint64_t for the time of first sample and the time of last sample. + HEADER_SAMPLE_TOPOLOGY = 22, + +Physical memory map and its node assignments. + +The format of data in MEM_TOPOLOGY is as follows: + + 0 - version | for future changes + 8 - block_size_bytes | /sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes + 16 - count | number of nodes + +For each node we store map of physical indexes: + + 32 - node id | node index + 40 - size | size of bitmap + 48 - bitmap | bitmap of memory indexes that belongs to node + | /sys/devices/system/node/node<NODE>/memory<INDEX> + +The MEM_TOPOLOGY can be displayed with following command: + +$ perf report --header-only -I +... +# memory nodes (nr 1, block size 0x8000000): +# 0 [7G]: 0-23,32-69 + + HEADER_CLOCKID = 23, + +One uint64_t for the clockid frequency, specified, for instance, via 'perf +record -k' (see clock_gettime()), to enable timestamps derived metrics +conversion into wall clock time on the reporting stage. + + HEADER_DIR_FORMAT = 24, + +The data files layout is described by HEADER_DIR_FORMAT feature. Currently it +holds only version number (1): + + uint64_t version; + +The current version holds only version value (1) means that data files: + +- Follow the 'data.*' name format. + +- Contain raw events data in standard perf format as read from kernel (and need + to be sorted) + +Future versions are expected to describe different data files layout according +to special needs. + + HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO = 25, + +struct bpf_prog_info_linear, which contains detailed information about +a BPF program, including type, id, tag, jited/xlated instructions, etc. + + HEADER_BPF_BTF = 26, + +Contains BPF Type Format (BTF). For more information about BTF, please +refer to Documentation/bpf/btf.rst. + +struct { + u32 id; + u32 data_size; + char data[]; +}; + HEADER_COMPRESSED = 27, struct { |