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authorKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>2015-08-11 06:30:47 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-08-12 13:20:27 -0300
commitd457c96392bb418bd998f3ccf93e0e4c958fcd0f (patch)
tree39588c97ab0c7250fdfc9e85be87519cd82d2332 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent75186a9b09e47072f442f43e292cd47180b67b5c (diff)
perf callchain: Per-event type selection support
This patchkit adds the ability to set callgraph mode (fp, dwarf, lbr) per event. This in term can reduce sampling overhead and the size of the perf.data. Here is an example. perf record -e 'cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000,call-graph=fp,time=1/,cpu/instructions,call-graph=lbr/' sleep 1 perf evlist -v cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000,call-graph=fp,time=1/: type: 4, size: 112, config: 0x3c, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CALLCHAIN|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 cpu/instructions,call-graph=lbr/: type: 4, size: 112, config: 0xc0, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CALLCHAIN|PERIOD|BRANCH_STACK|IDENTIFIER, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1 Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439289050-40510-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ OPTIONS
- 'time': Disable/enable time stamping. Acceptable values are 1 for
enabling time stamping. 0 for disabling time stamping.
The default is 1.
+ - 'call-graph': Disable/enable callgraph. Acceptable str are "fp" for
+ FP mode, "dwarf" for DWARF mode, "lbr" for LBR mode.
+ - 'stack-size': user stack size for dwarf mode
Note: If user explicitly sets options which conflict with the params,
the value set by the params will be overridden.