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| author | Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> | 2021-04-30 10:02:58 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2021-05-12 12:43:10 -0300 |
| commit | 18f4949427dc80bd9027001d28118cd8d555d890 (patch) | |
| tree | 93468cda21d887ad42f505dc830306213d7f1cd7 | |
| parent | 88b06399c9c766c283e070b022b5ceafa4f63f19 (diff) | |
perf auxtrace: Add Z itrace option for timeless decoding
Issues correlating timestamps can be avoided with timeless decoding. Add
an option for that, so that timeless decoding can be used even when
timestamps are present.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430070309.17624-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 2 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt index 0f1005209a2b..2d586fe5e4c5 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ L synthesize last branch entries on existing event records s skip initial number of events q quicker (less detailed) decoding + Z prefer to ignore timestamps (so-called "timeless" decoding) The default is all events i.e. the same as --itrace=ibxwpe, except for perf script where it is --itrace=ce diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c index 1b4091a3b508..87a9220938e3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c @@ -1569,6 +1569,9 @@ int itrace_parse_synth_opts(const struct option *opt, const char *str, case 'q': synth_opts->quick += 1; break; + case 'Z': + synth_opts->timeless_decoding = true; + break; case ' ': case ',': break; diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h index a4fbb33b7245..59c3c05384a4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ enum itrace_period_type { * @tlb: whether to synthesize TLB events * @remote_access: whether to synthesize remote access events * @mem: whether to synthesize memory events + * @timeless_decoding: prefer "timeless" decoding i.e. ignore timestamps * @callchain_sz: maximum callchain size * @last_branch_sz: branch context size * @period: 'instructions' events period @@ -128,6 +129,7 @@ struct itrace_synth_opts { bool tlb; bool remote_access; bool mem; + bool timeless_decoding; unsigned int callchain_sz; unsigned int last_branch_sz; unsigned long long period; |