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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:15:53 +0200 From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> To: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] vmscan: tracing: Roll up of patches currently in mmotm On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 03:12:18PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 04:04:42PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 02:36:55PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > This is a roll-up of patches currently in mmotm related to stack reduction and > > > tracing reclaim. It is based on 2.6.35-rc6 and included for the convenience > > > of testing. > > > > > > No signed off required. > > > --- > > > .../trace/postprocess/trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl | 654 ++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > I have the feeling you've made an ad-hoc post processing script that seems > > to rewrite all the format parsing, debugfs, stream handling, etc... we > > have that in perf tools already. > > > > It's an hoc adaption of trace-pagealloc-postprocess.pl which was developed > before the perf scripting report. It's a bit klunky. > > > May be you weren't aware of what we have in perf in terms of scripting support. > > > > I'm aware, I just haven't gotten around to adapting what the script does > to the perf scripting support. The existance of the script I have means > people can reproduce my results without having to wait for me to rewrite > the post-processing scripts for perf. > > > First, launch perf list and spot the events you're interested in, let's > > say you're interested in irqs: > > > > $ perf list > > [...] > > irq:irq_handler_entry [Tracepoint event] > > irq:irq_handler_exit [Tracepoint event] > > irq:softirq_entry [Tracepoint event] > > irq:softirq_exit [Tracepoint event] > > [...] > > > > Now do a trace record: > > > > # perf record -e irq:irq_handler_entry -e irq:irq_handler_exit -e irq:softirq_entry -e irq:softirq_exit cmd > > > > or more simple: > > > > # perf record -e irq:* cmd > > > > You can use -a instead of cmd for wide tracing. > > > > Now generate a perf parsing script on top of these traces: > > > > # perf trace -g perl > > generated Perl script: perf-trace.pl > > > > Fill up the trace handlers inside perf-trace.pl and just run it: > > > > # perf trace -s perf-trace.pl > > > > Once ready, you can place your script in the script directory. > > > > Ultimately, the post-processing scripts should be adapted to perf but it > could be a while before I get around to it. Ok, I thought it was a brand new thing. No problem then. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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