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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/tools/rtla/common_options.rst | 19 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/tools/rtla/common_osnoise_options.rst | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst | 12 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_options.rst b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_options.rst index 721790ad984e..af76df6205d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_options.rst +++ b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_options.rst @@ -14,6 +14,25 @@ Save the stopped trace to [*file|osnoise_trace.txt*]. +**-e**, **--event** *sys:event* + + Enable an event in the trace (**-t**) session. The argument can be a specific event, e.g., **-e** *sched:sched_switch*, or all events of a system group, e.g., **-e** *sched*. Multiple **-e** are allowed. It is only active when **-t** or **-a** are set. + +**--filter** *<filter>* + + Filter the previous **-e** *sys:event* event with *<filter>*. For further information about event filtering see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/events.html#event-filtering. + +**--trigger** *<trigger>* + Enable a trace event trigger to the previous **-e** *sys:event*. + If the *hist:* trigger is activated, the output histogram will be automatically saved to a file named *system_event_hist.txt*. + For example, the command: + + rtla <command> <mode> -t -e osnoise:irq_noise --trigger="hist:key=desc,duration/1000:sort=desc,duration/1000:vals=hitcount" + + Will automatically save the content of the histogram associated to *osnoise:irq_noise* event in *osnoise_irq_noise_hist.txt*. + + For further information about event trigger see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/events.html#event-triggers. + **-P**, **--priority** *o:prio|r:prio|f:prio|d:runtime:period* Set scheduling parameters to the osnoise tracer threads, the format to set the priority are: diff --git a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_osnoise_options.rst b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_osnoise_options.rst index d556883e4e26..f792ca58c211 100644 --- a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_osnoise_options.rst +++ b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_osnoise_options.rst @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +**-a**, **--auto** *us* + + Set the automatic trace mode. This mode sets some commonly used options + while debugging the system. It is equivalent to use **-s** *us* **-T 1 -t**. + **-p**, **--period** *us* Set the *osnoise* tracer period in microseconds. @@ -15,3 +20,8 @@ Stop the trace if the total sample is higher than the argument in microseconds. If **-T** is set, it will also save the trace to the output. + +**-T**, **--threshold** *us* + + Specify the minimum delta between two time reads to be considered noise. + The default threshold is *5 us*. diff --git a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst index e9c1bfd55d48..bacdea6de7a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst +++ b/Documentation/tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.rst @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +**-a**, **--auto** *us* + + Set the automatic trace mode. This mode sets some commonly used options + while debugging the system. It is equivalent to use **-T** *us* **-s** *us* + **-t**. By default, *timerlat* tracer uses FIFO:95 for *timerlat* threads, + thus equilavent to **-P** *f:95*. + **-p**, **--period** *us* Set the *timerlat* tracer period in microseconds. @@ -14,3 +21,8 @@ Save the stack trace at the *IRQ* if a *Thread* latency is higher than the argument in us. + +**--dma-latency** *us* + Set the /dev/cpu_dma_latency to *us*, aiming to bound exit from idle latencies. + *cyclictest* sets this value to *0* by default, use **--dma-latency** *0* to have + similar results. |