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| author | Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> | 2012-01-04 16:54:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2012-01-06 17:49:49 (GMT) |
| commit | 99320cc8240affcf33c04d28f47259de3b1a75d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 77320e3f5327c9dbfbd20ede725395930c50a286 /tools/perf | |
| parent | 1aed2671738785e8f5aea663a6fda91aa7ef59b5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-99320cc8240affcf33c04d28f47259de3b1a75d1.tar.xz | |
perf tools: Add support for guest/host-only profiling
To restrict a counter to either host or guest mode this patch introduces
two new event modifiers: G and H.
With G the counter is configured in guest-only mode and with H in
host-only mode.
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-or5aj3rghy9ngyg882z6kln9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 14 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt index 7a527f7..ddc2252 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ EVENT MODIFIERS Events can optionally have a modifer by appending a colon and one or more modifiers. Modifiers allow the user to restrict when events are counted with 'u' for user-space, 'k' for kernel, 'h' for hypervisor. +Additional modifiers are 'G' for guest counting (in KVM guests) and 'H' +for host counting (not in KVM guests). The 'p' modifier can be used for specifying how precise the instruction address should be. The 'p' modifier is currently only implemented for diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c index dcf999c..b029296 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -735,8 +735,8 @@ static int parse_event_modifier(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr) { const char *str = *strp; - int exclude = 0; - int eu = 0, ek = 0, eh = 0, precise = 0; + int exclude = 0, exclude_GH = 0; + int eu = 0, ek = 0, eh = 0, eH = 0, eG = 0, precise = 0; if (!*str) return 0; @@ -760,6 +760,14 @@ parse_event_modifier(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr) if (!exclude) exclude = eu = ek = eh = 1; eh = 0; + } else if (*str == 'G') { + if (!exclude_GH) + exclude_GH = eG = eH = 1; + eG = 0; + } else if (*str == 'H') { + if (!exclude_GH) + exclude_GH = eG = eH = 1; + eH = 0; } else if (*str == 'p') { precise++; } else @@ -776,6 +784,8 @@ parse_event_modifier(const char **strp, struct perf_event_attr *attr) attr->exclude_kernel = ek; attr->exclude_hv = eh; attr->precise_ip = precise; + attr->exclude_host = eH; + attr->exclude_guest = eG; return 0; } |