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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-04-24 01:55:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-04-24 03:50:48 +0200 |
| commit | e1889d75aff0c3786bc53aeb7d9eaca0691c19c5 (patch) | |
| tree | a7d3448ffe47bb806e9af85c6935fdc43c837eff /tools | |
| parent | 9df9bbba9f7e2e4ffdc51bbbfa524b67691321d2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e1889d75aff0c3786bc53aeb7d9eaca0691c19c5.tar.bz2 | |
perf: Add a perf trace option to check samples ordering reliability
To ensure sample events time reordering is reliable, add a -d option
to perf trace to check that automatically.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c index 1d034f6fa28a..77f556f7604c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ static char const *script_name; static char const *generate_script_lang; +static bool debug_ordering; +static u64 last_timestamp; static int default_start_script(const char *script __unused, int argc __unused, @@ -87,6 +89,14 @@ static int process_sample_event(event_t *event, struct perf_session *session) } if (session->sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) { + if (debug_ordering) { + if (data.time < last_timestamp) { + pr_err("Samples misordered, previous: %llu " + "this: %llu\n", last_timestamp, + data.time); + } + last_timestamp = data.time; + } /* * FIXME: better resolve from pid from the struct trace_entry * field, although it should be the same than this perf @@ -532,6 +542,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = { "generate perf-trace.xx script in specified language"), OPT_STRING('i', "input", &input_name, "file", "input file name"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "debug-ordering", &debug_ordering, + "check that samples time ordering is monotonic"), OPT_END() }; |