linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4] perf report: add parameters 'start' & 'end' to specify analysis interval

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Message-Id: <1383298146-3860-1-git-send-email-chenggang.qin@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri,  1 Nov 2013 17:29:02 +0800
From:	Chenggang Qin <chenggang.qin@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Chenggang Qin <chenggang.qin@...il.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@...el.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chenggang Qin <chenggang.qcg@...bao.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] perf report: add parameters 'start' & 'end' to specify analysis interval

This patch set introduced a feature to analysis the samples in a specified time
interval.
After perf.data file was generated by perf record, the user could want to
analysis a sub time interval of the whole record period.
For some functions, the percent of its samples in a certain sub time interval is
different from the percent in the total record period. Showing the scene in a
certain time interval could allow users to more easily troubleshoot performance
problems. The sample's timestamp are recorded in the perf.data file. The samples
are sorted in the ordered_samples by timestamp while perf report processed them.
So, it is easily to search the samples whose timestamp are in a certain time
interval.
We add 2 paramters --start and --end to specify the time interval.
perf report --start xxxxx --end xxxxx
The smallest granularity of time interval is millsecond.
For example:
If the whole record period of a perf.data file is 10000 to 20000, we can use the
following command to analysis the samples between [15000, 16000).
perf report --start 15000 --end 16000
The time is the uptime, it start timing from the system starts.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@...el.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chenggang Qin <chenggang.qcg@...bao.com>

Chenggang Qin (4):
  perf tools: add parameter 'start' & 'end' to perf report
  perf tools: relate 'start' & 'end' to perf_session
  perf tools: record min_timestamp of samples queue in ordered_samples
  perf tools: add the feature to assign analysis interval to perf
    report

 tools/perf/builtin-report.c |   14 ++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/session.c   |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/perf/util/session.h   |    3 ++
 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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1.7.8.rc2.5.g815b

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