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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt5
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c30
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 58986f4cc190..27b37624c376 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -478,6 +478,11 @@ Also at some cases executing less output write syscalls with bigger data size
can take less time than executing more output write syscalls with smaller data
size thus lowering runtime profiling overhead.
+-z::
+--compression-level[=n]::
+Produce compressed trace using specified level n (default: 1 - fastest compression,
+22 - smallest trace)
+
--all-kernel::
Configure all used events to run in kernel space.
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index a0bd9104fae6..861395753c25 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -443,6 +443,25 @@ static int record__mmap_flush_parse(const struct option *opt,
return 0;
}
+#ifdef HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT
+static unsigned int comp_level_default = 1;
+
+static int record__parse_comp_level(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset)
+{
+ struct record_opts *opts = opt->value;
+
+ if (unset) {
+ opts->comp_level = 0;
+ } else {
+ if (str)
+ opts->comp_level = strtol(str, NULL, 0);
+ if (!opts->comp_level)
+ opts->comp_level = comp_level_default;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
static unsigned int comp_level_max = 22;
static int record__comp_enabled(struct record *rec)
@@ -2200,6 +2219,11 @@ static struct option __record_options[] = {
OPT_CALLBACK(0, "affinity", &record.opts, "node|cpu",
"Set affinity mask of trace reading thread to NUMA node cpu mask or cpu of processed mmap buffer",
record__parse_affinity),
+#ifdef HAVE_ZSTD_SUPPORT
+ OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG('z', "compression-level", &record.opts, &comp_level_default,
+ "n", "Compressed records using specified level (default: 1 - fastest compression, 22 - greatest compression)",
+ record__parse_comp_level),
+#endif
OPT_END()
};
@@ -2259,6 +2283,12 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
"cgroup monitoring only available in system-wide mode");
}
+
+ if (rec->opts.comp_level != 0) {
+ pr_debug("Compression enabled, disabling build id collection at the end of the session.\n");
+ rec->no_buildid = true;
+ }
+
if (rec->opts.record_switch_events &&
!perf_can_record_switch_events()) {
ui__error("kernel does not support recording context switch events\n");