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| author | Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> | 2015-08-31 16:41:12 (GMT) |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-08-31 21:01:33 (GMT) |
| commit | bcc84ec65ad1bd9f777a1fade6f8e5e0c5808fa5 (patch) | |
| tree | f824e46632026abbbe0f76f109e86b2c09bec18f /tools/perf/builtin-record.c | |
| parent | c5e991ee9dff0f8136168ed2d0d1a8cc3620dac4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bcc84ec65ad1bd9f777a1fade6f8e5e0c5808fa5.tar.xz | |
perf record: Add ability to name registers to record
This patch modifies the -I/--int-regs option to enablepassing the name
of the registers to sample on interrupt. Registers can be specified by
their symbolic names. For instance on x86, --intr-regs=ax,si.
The motivation is to reduce the size of the perf.data file and the
overhead of sampling by only collecting the registers useful to a
specific analysis. For instance, for value profiling, sampling only the
registers used to passed arguements to functions.
With no parameter, the --intr-regs still records all possible registers
based on the architecture.
To name registers, it is necessary to use the long form of the option,
i.e., --intr-regs:
$ perf record --intr-regs=si,di,r8,r9 .....
To record any possible registers:
$ perf record -I .....
$ perf report --intr-regs ...
To display the register, one can use perf report -D
To list the available registers:
$ perf record --intr-regs=\?
available registers: AX BX CX DX SI DI BP SP IP FLAGS CS SS R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441039273-16260-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.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.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 1d14f38..142eeb3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ #include "util/cpumap.h" #include "util/thread_map.h" #include "util/data.h" +#include "util/perf_regs.h" #include "util/auxtrace.h" #include "util/parse-branch-options.h" +#include "util/parse-regs-options.h" #include <unistd.h> #include <sched.h> @@ -1080,8 +1082,9 @@ struct option __record_options[] = { "sample transaction flags (special events only)"), OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "per-thread", &record.opts.target.per_thread, "use per-thread mmaps"), - OPT_BOOLEAN('I', "intr-regs", &record.opts.sample_intr_regs, - "Sample machine registers on interrupt"), + OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG('I', "intr-regs", &record.opts.sample_intr_regs, NULL, "any register", + "sample selected machine registers on interrupt," + " use -I ? to list register names", parse_regs), OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "running-time", &record.opts.running_time, "Record running/enabled time of read (:S) events"), OPT_CALLBACK('k', "clockid", &record.opts, |