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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2013-11-01 15:51:34 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-11-14 16:10:27 -0300
commit539e6bb71e350541105e67e3d6c31392d9da25ef (patch)
tree28f5b908b42bee694cddad30d2fc1f15c66315e6 /tools
parent35e17b2450e09968f9702d4048c228199af171bc (diff)
perf record: Add an option to force per-cpu mmaps
By default, when tasks are specified (i.e. -p, -t or -u options) per-thread mmaps are created. Add an option to override that and force per-cpu mmaps. Further comments by peterz: So this option allows -t/-p/-u to create one buffer per cpu and attach all the various thread/process/user tasks' their counters to that one buffer? As opposed to the current state where each such counter would have its own buffer. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Tested-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383313899-15987-7-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evlist.c4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/target.h1
5 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 052f7c4dc00c..43b42c4f4a91 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -201,6 +201,12 @@ abort events and some memory events in precise mode on modern Intel CPUs.
--transaction::
Record transaction flags for transaction related events.
+--force-per-cpu::
+Force the use of per-cpu mmaps. By default, when tasks are specified (i.e. -p,
+-t or -u options) per-thread mmaps are created. This option overrides that and
+forces per-cpu mmaps. A side-effect of that is that inheritance is
+automatically enabled. Add the -i option also to disable inheritance.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 4d644fe2d5b7..7c8020a32784 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -888,6 +888,8 @@ const struct option record_options[] = {
"sample by weight (on special events only)"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "transaction", &record.opts.sample_transaction,
"sample transaction flags (special events only)"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "force-per-cpu", &record.opts.target.force_per_cpu,
+ "force the use of per-cpu mmaps"),
OPT_END()
};
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 5ce2ace2d6c1..bbc746aa5716 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -819,7 +819,9 @@ int perf_evlist__create_maps(struct perf_evlist *evlist, struct target *target)
if (evlist->threads == NULL)
return -1;
- if (target__has_task(target))
+ if (target->force_per_cpu)
+ evlist->cpus = cpu_map__new(target->cpu_list);
+ else if (target__has_task(target))
evlist->cpus = cpu_map__dummy_new();
else if (!target__has_cpu(target) && !target->uses_mmap)
evlist->cpus = cpu_map__dummy_new();
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 18f7c188ff63..46dd4c2a41ce 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ void perf_evsel__config(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
}
}
- if (target__has_cpu(&opts->target))
+ if (target__has_cpu(&opts->target) || opts->target.force_per_cpu)
perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, CPU);
if (opts->period)
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ void perf_evsel__config(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
if (!perf_missing_features.sample_id_all &&
(opts->sample_time || !opts->no_inherit ||
- target__has_cpu(&opts->target)))
+ target__has_cpu(&opts->target) || opts->target.force_per_cpu))
perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, TIME);
if (opts->raw_samples) {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/target.h b/tools/perf/util/target.h
index 89bab7129de4..2d0c50690892 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/target.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/target.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ struct target {
uid_t uid;
bool system_wide;
bool uses_mmap;
+ bool force_per_cpu;
};
enum target_errno {