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Message-Id: <20240111081914.3123-11-adrian.hunter@intel.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:19:13 +0200 From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>, Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>, Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.ibm.com>, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>, Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>, James Clark <james.clark@....com>, coresight@...ts.linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>, Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH V4 10/11] perf intel-pt: Add documentation for pause / resume Document the use of aux-action config term and provide a simple example. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt index b3d9fb29ffd3..3a0d73bf8bc2 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt @@ -551,6 +551,9 @@ Support for this feature is indicated by: which contains "1" if the feature is supported and "0" otherwise. +*aux-action=start-paused*:: +Start tracing paused, refer to the section <<_pause_or_resume_tracing,Pause or Resume Tracing>> + config terms on other events ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -566,6 +569,9 @@ and PEBS-via-PT. In those cases, the other events can have config terms below: Used to select PEBS-via-PT, refer to the section <<_pebs_via_intel_pt,PEBS via Intel PT>> +*aux-action*:: + Used to pause or resume tracing, refer to the section + <<_pause_or_resume_tracing,Pause or Resume Tracing>> AUX area sampling option ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -1911,6 +1917,70 @@ For pipe mode, the order of events and timestamps can presumably be messed up. +Pause or Resume Tracing +----------------------- + +With newer Kernels, it is possible to use other selected events to pause +or resume Intel PT tracing. This is configured by using the "aux-action" +config term: + +"aux-action=pause" is used with events that are to pause Intel PT tracing. + +"aux-action=resume" is used with events that are to resume Intel PT tracing. + +"aux-action=start-paused" is used with the Intel PT event to start in a +paused state. + +For example, to trace only the uname system call (sys_newuname) when running the +command line utility uname: + + $ perf record --kcore -e intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/k,syscalls:sys_enter_newuname/aux-action=resume/,syscalls:sys_exit_newuname/aux-action=pause/ uname + Linux + [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] + [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.043 MB perf.data ] + $ perf script --call-trace + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058782799: name: 0x7ffc9c1865b0 + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784424: psb offs: 0 + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784424: cbr: 39 freq: 3904 MHz (139%) + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __x64_sys_newuname + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) down_read + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __cond_resched + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) preempt_count_add + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) in_lock_functions + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) preempt_count_sub + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) up_read + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784629: ([kernel.kallsyms]) preempt_count_add + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) in_lock_functions + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) preempt_count_sub + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) _copy_to_user + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) syscall_exit_to_user_mode + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) syscall_exit_work + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_syscall_exit + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058784838: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_trace_buf_alloc + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_swevent_get_recursion_context + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_tp_event + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_trace_buf_update + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) tracing_gen_ctx_irq_test + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_swevent_event + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __perf_event_account_interrupt + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __this_cpu_preempt_check + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_event_output_forward + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) perf_event_aux_pause + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) ring_buffer_get + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __rcu_read_lock + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785046: ([kernel.kallsyms]) __rcu_read_unlock + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785254: ([kernel.kallsyms]) pt_event_stop + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785254: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785254: ([kernel.kallsyms]) debug_smp_processor_id + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785254: ([kernel.kallsyms]) native_write_msr + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785463: ([kernel.kallsyms]) native_write_msr + uname 30805 [000] 24001.058785639: 0x0 + + EXAMPLE ------- -- 2.34.1
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