Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Oct 2015 20:38:06 +0200 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/9] perf tools: Introduce 'P' modifier |
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 12:13:48PM -0600, David Ahern wrote: > On 10/5/15 12:06 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > >The 'P' will cause the event to get maximum possible > >detected precise level. > > > >Following record: > > $ perf record -e cycles:P ... > > > >will detect maximum precise level for 'cycles' event > >and use it. > > > > Does the end result (which precise level is used) get saved to the header > and displayed to the user properly?
yep..
[jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf record -e cycles:P ls
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[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.014 MB perf.data (8 samples) ] [jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf evlist cycles:P [jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf evlist -v cycles:P: size: 112, ... precise_ip: 2 ...
[jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf report --stdio # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 8 of event 'cycles:P' # Event count (approx.): 4270406 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol ...
jirka
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