Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:53:17 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf: add ability to sample physical data addresses | From | Stephane Eranian <> |
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:50 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/30/13 8:21 AM, Stephane Eranian wrote: >> >> One thing that bothers me with the MMAP2 approach is that >> it forces integration into perf. Now, you will need to analyze >> the MMAP2 records. With my sample_type approach, you >> simply needed a cmdline option on perf record, and then >> you could dump the sample using perf report -D and feed > > > what do you want that is not coming out via perf-script? > mmap records. Are they passed to scripts?
> >> them into a post-processing script. But now, the analysis >> needs to be integrated into perf or the tool needs to parse >> the full perf.data file. > > > you mean parsed during perf-record? > No, I mean for a standalone tool on top of perf record. With my approach, you can simply write a wrapper script around perf report and do the analysis.
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