From 0c711138fa61188aa379210e9e08ac76838dea03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Richter Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 09:44:33 +0200 Subject: perf data: Update documentation section on cpu topology Add an explanation of each cpu's core and socket identifier to the perf.data file format documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Hendrik Brueckner Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180528074433.16652-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt index d00f0d51cab8..c57904a526ce 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt @@ -153,10 +153,18 @@ struct { HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY = 13, String lists defining the core and CPU threads topology. +The string lists are followed by a variable length array +which contains core_id and socket_id of each cpu. +The number of entries can be determined by the size of the +section minus the sizes of both string lists. struct { struct perf_header_string_list cores; /* Variable length */ struct perf_header_string_list threads; /* Variable length */ + struct { + uint32_t core_id; + uint32_t socket_id; + } cpus[nr]; /* Variable length records */ }; Example: -- cgit