Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:07:26 -0800 | From | Arun Sharma <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] trace: reset sleep/block start time on task switch |
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On 2/10/12 10:43 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 11:50 -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: >> # perf record -agP -e sched:sched_switch --filter "prev_state == 1 || >> prev_state == 2" -e sched:sched_stat_sleep -- sleep 3 > > Problem with that is it'll try and do a backtrace for all events, not > only the sched_switch but also sched_stat_sleep, which is completely > superfluous (and expensive). > > Currently perf tool doesn't support individual -g flags though and its > slightly non-trivial to make it so. Easiest work-around would be two > records and then merge the two files.
If we have a sequence of:
SL1, SW1, SL2, SW2, SL3, SW3
I think you're suggesting:
perf.data1: SL1, SL2, SL3 (without -g) perf.data2: SW1, SW2, SW3 (with -g)
and then munge the data to create perf.data. But making sure that all matching sleep and switch events are captured seems hard.
-Arun
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