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authorJin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>2017-12-08 21:13:42 +0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-01-08 11:20:56 -0300
commit68588baf8d01826673f2874f434123029e519052 (patch)
treeae9b446d10304869131bda937a212ab09489cc20
parent6011518db3bd04c80cd3ce3e6aea1c399739adb4 (diff)
downloadlinux-68588baf8d01826673f2874f434123029e519052.tar.bz2
perf record: Record the first and last sample time in the header
In the default 'perf record' configuration, all samples are processed, to create the HEADER_BUILD_ID table. So it's very easy to get the first/last samples and save the time to perf file header via the function write_sample_time(). Later, at post processing time, perf report/script will fetch the time from perf file header. Committer testing: # perf record -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.099 MB perf.data (1101 samples) ] [root@jouet home]# perf report --header | grep "time of " # time of first sample : 22947.909226 # time of last sample : 22948.910704 # # perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE\( 0 22947909226101 0x20bb68 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa21b1af3 period: 1 addr: 0 0 22947909229928 0x20bb98 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa200d204 period: 1 addr: 0 <SNIP> 3 22948910397351 0x219360 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 28251/28251: 0xffffffffa22071d8 period: 169518 addr: 0 0 22948910652380 0x20f120 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa2856816 period: 198807 addr: 0 2 22948910704034 0x2172d0 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa2856816 period: 88111 addr: 0 # Changelog: v7: Just update the patch description according to Arnaldo's suggestion. v6: Currently '--buildid-all' is not enabled at default. So the walking on all samples is the default operation. There is no big overhead to calculate the timestamp boundary in process_sample_event handler once we already go through all samples. So the timestamp boundary calculation is enabled by default when '--buildid-all' is not enabled. While if '--buildid-all' is enabled, we creates a new option "--timestamp-boundary" for user to decide if it enables the timestamp boundary calculation. v5: There is an issue that the sample walking can only work when '--buildid-all' is not enabled. So we need to let the walking be able to work even if '--buildid-all' is enabled and let the processing skips the dso hit marking for this case. At first, I want to provide a new option "--record-time-boundaries". While after consideration, I think a new option is not very necessary. v3: Remove the definitions of first_sample_time and last_sample_time from struct record and directly save them in perf_evlist. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512738826-2628-3-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c18
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 5a626ef666c2..3eea6de35a38 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -430,6 +430,9 @@ Configure all used events to run in user space.
--timestamp-filename
Append timestamp to output file name.
+--timestamp-boundary::
+Record timestamp boundary (time of first/last samples).
+
--switch-output[=mode]::
Generate multiple perf.data files, timestamp prefixed, switching to a new one
based on 'mode' value:
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 50385d89c497..65681a1a292a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct record {
bool no_buildid_cache_set;
bool buildid_all;
bool timestamp_filename;
+ bool timestamp_boundary;
struct switch_output switch_output;
unsigned long long samples;
};
@@ -409,8 +410,15 @@ static int process_sample_event(struct perf_tool *tool,
{
struct record *rec = container_of(tool, struct record, tool);
- rec->samples++;
+ if (rec->evlist->first_sample_time == 0)
+ rec->evlist->first_sample_time = sample->time;
+
+ rec->evlist->last_sample_time = sample->time;
+ if (rec->buildid_all)
+ return 0;
+
+ rec->samples++;
return build_id__mark_dso_hit(tool, event, sample, evsel, machine);
}
@@ -435,9 +443,11 @@ static int process_buildids(struct record *rec)
/*
* If --buildid-all is given, it marks all DSO regardless of hits,
- * so no need to process samples.
+ * so no need to process samples. But if timestamp_boundary is enabled,
+ * it still needs to walk on all samples to get the timestamps of
+ * first/last samples.
*/
- if (rec->buildid_all)
+ if (rec->buildid_all && !rec->timestamp_boundary)
rec->tool.sample = NULL;
return perf_session__process_events(session);
@@ -1621,6 +1631,8 @@ static struct option __record_options[] = {
"Record build-id of all DSOs regardless of hits"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "timestamp-filename", &record.timestamp_filename,
"append timestamp to output filename"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "timestamp-boundary", &record.timestamp_boundary,
+ "Record timestamp boundary (time of first/last samples)"),
OPT_STRING_OPTARG_SET(0, "switch-output", &record.switch_output.str,
&record.switch_output.set, "signal,size,time",
"Switch output when receive SIGUSR2 or cross size,time threshold",