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| author | Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> | 2020-03-25 21:45:34 +0900 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2020-04-03 09:37:55 -0300 |
| commit | 8fb4b67939e169fca68174e9ac7be79fe9a04498 (patch) | |
| tree | db4f8888ee0082116f78f161f7e74ce0688a7438 /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | |
| parent | ab64069f1a6604a43daec5fc4a4294b0b77a8b93 (diff) | |
perf record: Add --all-cgroups option
The --all-cgroups option is to enable cgroup profiling support. It
tells kernel to record CGROUP events in the ring buffer so that perf
report can identify task/cgroup association later.
[root@seventh ~]# perf record --all-cgroups --namespaces /wb/cgtest
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.042 MB perf.data (558 samples) ]
[root@seventh ~]# perf report --stdio -s cgroup_id,cgroup,pid
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 558 of event 'cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 458017341
#
# Overhead cgroup id (dev/inode) Cgroup Pid:Command
# ........ ..................... .......... ...............
#
33.15% 4/0xeffffffb /sub 9615:looper0
32.83% 4/0xf00002f5 /sub/cgrp2 9620:looper2
32.79% 4/0xf00002f4 /sub/cgrp1 9619:looper1
0.35% 4/0xf00002f5 /sub/cgrp2 9618:cgtest
0.34% 4/0xf00002f4 /sub/cgrp1 9617:cgtest
0.32% 4/0xeffffffb / 9615:looper0
0.11% 4/0xeffffffb /sub 9617:cgtest
0.10% 4/0xeffffffb /sub 9618:cgtest
#
# (Tip: Sample related events with: perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S')
#
[root@seventh ~]#
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200325124536.2800725-8-namhyung@kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200402015249.3800462-1-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Extracted the HAVE_FILE_HANDLE from the followup patch ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index b25e028458e2..b3f3b3f1c161 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -391,7 +391,10 @@ displayed with the weight and local_weight sort keys. This currently works for abort events and some memory events in precise mode on modern Intel CPUs. --namespaces:: -Record events of type PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES. +Record events of type PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES. This enables 'cgroup_id' sort key. + +--all-cgroups:: +Record events of type PERF_RECORD_CGROUP. This enables 'cgroup' sort key. --transaction:: Record transaction flags for transaction related events. |