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authorIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>2010-12-09 05:33:53 (GMT)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-12-21 22:17:51 (GMT)
commiteac23d1c384b55e4bbb89ea9e5a6bb77fb4d1140 (patch)
treedbf4c419ddb9954a9879b7c6bc34f2a812402c8c /tools/perf/builtin-record.c
parent21ef97f05a7da5bc23b26cb34d6746f83ca9bf20 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-eac23d1c384b55e4bbb89ea9e5a6bb77fb4d1140.tar.xz
perf record,report,annotate,diff: Process events in order
This patch changes perf report to ask for the ID info on all events be default if recording from multiple CPUs. Perf report, annotate and diff will now process the events in order if the kernel is able to provide timestamps on all events. This ensures that events such as COMM and MMAP which are necessary to correctly interpret samples are processed prior to those samples so that they are attributed correctly. Before: # perf record ./cachetest # perf report # Events: 6K cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................. ............................... # 74.11% :3259 [unknown] [k] 0x4a6c 1.50% cachetest ld-2.11.2.so [.] 0x1777c 1.46% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .perf_event_mmap_ctx 1.25% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] restore 0.74% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ._raw_spin_lock 0.71% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .filemap_fault 0.66% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .memset 0.54% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .sha_transform 0.54% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .copy_4K_page 0.54% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .find_get_page 0.52% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .trace_hardirqs_off 0.50% :3259 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .__do_fault <SNIP> After: # perf report # Events: 6K cycles # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................. ............................... # 44.28% cachetest cachetest [.] sumArrayNaive 22.53% cachetest cachetest [.] sumArrayOptimal 6.59% cachetest ld-2.11.2.so [.] 0x1777c 2.13% cachetest [unknown] [k] 0x340 1.46% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .perf_event_mmap_ctx 1.25% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] restore 0.74% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ._raw_spin_lock 0.71% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .filemap_fault 0.66% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .memset 0.54% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .copy_4K_page 0.54% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .find_get_page 0.54% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .sha_transform 0.52% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .trace_hardirqs_off 0.50% cachetest [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .__do_fault <SNIP> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1291872833-839-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index efd1b3c..5149e3d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static void create_counter(int counter, int cpu)
if (system_wide)
attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_CPU;
- if (sample_time)
+ if (sample_time || system_wide || !no_inherit || cpu_list)
attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_TIME;
if (raw_samples) {
@@ -327,6 +327,9 @@ try_again:
* Old kernel, no attr->sample_id_type_all field
*/
sample_id_all_avail = false;
+ if (!sample_time && !raw_samples)
+ attr->sample_type &= ~PERF_SAMPLE_TIME;
+
goto retry_sample_id;
}