Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2014 04:36:46 -0800 | From | tip-bot for Stephane Eranian <> | Subject | [tip:perf/core] perf record: Add new -I option to sample interrupted machine state |
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Commit-ID: 4b6c51773d86883a2e80cffadbe4f178ac1babd8 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4b6c51773d86883a2e80cffadbe4f178ac1babd8 Author: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> AuthorDate: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:48:41 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> CommitDate: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:42:02 +0100
perf record: Add new -I option to sample interrupted machine state
Add -I/--intr-regs option to capture machine state registers at interrupt.
Add the corresponding man page description
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411559322-16548-6-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Cc: cebbert.lkml@gmail.com Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 6 ++++++ tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index 398f8d5..af9a54e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -214,6 +214,12 @@ if combined with -a or -C options. After starting the program, wait msecs before measuring. This is useful to filter out the startup phase of the program, which is often very different. +-I:: +--intr-regs:: +Capture machine state (registers) at interrupt, i.e., on counter overflows for +each sample. List of captured registers depends on the architecture. This option +is off by default. + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1] diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 582c4da..8648c6d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -811,6 +811,8 @@ struct option __record_options[] = { "sample transaction flags (special events only)"), OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "per-thread", &record.opts.target.per_thread, "use per-thread mmaps"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('I', "intr-regs", &record.opts.sample_intr_regs, + "Sample machine registers on interrupt"), OPT_END() };
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