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authorBrendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>2017-03-14 01:56:29 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-03-14 15:17:38 -0300
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perf sched timehist: Add --next option
The --next option shows the next task for each context switch, providing more context for the sequence of scheduler events. $ perf sched timehist --next | head Samples do not have callchains. time cpu task name waittime schdelay run time [tid/pid] (msec) (msec) (msec) ---------- --- ---------- --------- ------ ----- 374.793792 [0] <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.000 next: rngd[1524] 374.793801 [0] rngd[1524] 0.000 0.000 0.009 next: swapper/0[0] 374.794048 [7] <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.000 next: yes[30884] 374.794066 [7] yes[30884] 0.000 0.000 0.018 next: swapper/7[0] 374.794126 [2] <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.000 next: rngd[1524] 374.794140 [2] rngd[1524] 0.325 0.006 0.013 next: swapper/2[0] 374.794281 [3] <idle> 0.000 0.000 0.000 next: perf[31070] Signed-off-by: Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489456589-32555-1-git-send-email-bgregg@netflix.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-sched.txt
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@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ OPTIONS for 'perf sched timehist'
--migrations::
Show migration events.
+-n::
+--next::
+ Show next task.
+
-I::
--idle-hist::
Show idle-related events only.