Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | | Subject | [PATCH 8/9] perf: Add a perf trace option to check samples ordering reliability | | Date | Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:05:41 +0200 |
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To ensure sample events time reordering is reliable, add a -d option to perf trace to check that automatically.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> --- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c index 1d034f6..77f556f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ static char const *script_name; static char const *generate_script_lang; +static bool debug_ordering; +static u64 last_timestamp; static int default_start_script(const char *script __unused, int argc __unused, @@ -87,6 +89,14 @@ static int process_sample_event(event_t *event, struct perf_session *session) } if (session->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) { + if (debug_ordering) { + if (data.time < last_timestamp) { + pr_err("Samples misordered, previous: %llu " + "this: %llu\n", last_timestamp, + data.time); + } + last_timestamp = data.time; + } /* * FIXME: better resolve from pid from the struct trace_entry * field, although it should be the same than this perf @@ -532,6 +542,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = { "generate perf-trace.xx script in specified language"), OPT_STRING('i', "input", &input_name, "file", "input file name"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "debug-ordering", &debug_ordering, + "check that samples time ordering is monotonic"), OPT_END() }; -- 1.6.2.3
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