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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2018-09-20 21:05:37 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-10-24 21:29:54 +0300
commit4eb068157121939f4bc16256a37bcd88f5554123 (patch)
treec7966a41ba53841c225d831d8cdd6deb4a3a2dff /tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
parentb585ebdb5912cf1438d4822f79aaebe36a2d123a (diff)
downloadlinux-4eb068157121939f4bc16256a37bcd88f5554123.tar.xz
perf script: Make itrace script default to all calls
By default 'perf script' for itrace outputs sampled instructions or branches. In my experience this is confusing to users because it's hard to correlate with real program behavior. The sampling makes sense for tools like 'perf report' that actually sample to reduce the run time, but run time is normally not a problem for 'perf script'. It's better to give an accurate representation of the program flow. Default 'perf script' to output all calls for itrace. That's a much saner default. The old behavior can be still requested with 'perf script' --itrace=ibxwpe100000 v2: Fix ETM build failure v3: Really fix ETM build failure (Kim Phillips) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180920180540.14039-3-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
index a3abe04c779d..c2182cbabde3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@
l synthesize last branch entries (use with i or x)
s skip initial number of events
- The default is all events i.e. the same as --itrace=ibxwpe
+ The default is all events i.e. the same as --itrace=ibxwpe,
+ except for perf script where it is --itrace=ce
- In addition, the period (default 100000) for instructions events
- can be specified in units of:
+ In addition, the period (default 100000, except for perf script where it is 1)
+ for instructions events can be specified in units of:
i instructions
t ticks