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SubjectRe: [patch 09/11] perf_event_open.2: 4.1 add PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START
On 07/23/2015 07:15 PM, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
>
> This manpage patch relates to the addition of the PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START
> record type in the following commit:

Thanks, Vince. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> commit ec0d7729bbaed4b9d2d3fada693278e13a3d1368
> Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
>
> perf: Add ITRACE_START record to indicate that tracing has started
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: acme@infradead.org
> Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
> Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
> Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
> Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-15-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
>
> diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> index 19c5c23..8ef9ec6 100644
> --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
> +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> @@ -2505,6 +2505,29 @@ buffer size.
> if set then the data returned has overwritten previous data.
> .RE
> .RE
> +.TP
> +.BR PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START " (since Linux 4.1)"
> +\" ec0d7729bbaed4b9d2d3fada693278e13a3d1368
> +This record indicates which process has initiated an instruction
> +trace event, allowing tools to properly correlate the instruction
> +addresses in the AUX buffer with the proper executable.
> +
> +.in +4n
> +.nf
> +struct {
> + struct perf_event_header header;
> + u32 pid;
> + u32 tid;
> +};
> +.fi
> +.RS
> +.TP
> +.I pid
> +process id of the thread starting an instruction trace.
> +.TP
> +.I tid
> +thread id of the thread starting an instruction trace.
> +.RE
> .RE
> .SS Overflow handling
> Events can be set to notify when a threshold is crossed,
>


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Michael Kerrisk
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