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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 08/17] perf tools: Add Intel PT support
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:08:18 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150626150818.GD3265@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558D57FB.6090704@intel.com>

Em Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:47:39PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> On 26/06/15 16:41, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >> Another thing, the intel_bts implementation does not support
> >> "instructions" samples because there is no timing information to
> >> use to create periodic samples.  But callchains are added only
> >> to "instructions" samples so there are no callchains in 'perf report'
> >> for intel_bts.  The call information is still available for
> > 
> > Humm, so IOW, what you say is that we should refuse to run 'record' when
> > asking for callchains and intel_bts?
> 
> 'record' can record other events at the same time which can have callchains.
> e.g.
> 
> 	perf record -g --per-thread -e intel_bts//u,branch-misses:u ls

Right, what I was trying to say is that there are combinations where one
can ask for a callchain in record, it will act as if it did what was
asked for but then when report runs, no callchain will be available.

I guess we can check for that situation and warn the user.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-26 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-29 13:33 [PATCH V6 00/17] perf tools: Introduce an abstraction for AUX Area and Instruction Tracing Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 01/17] perf db-export: Fix thread ref-counting Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 18:35   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 02/17] perf tools: Ensure thread-stack is flushed Adrian Hunter
2015-06-18 21:56   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-19  5:50     ` Adrian Hunter
2015-06-19 23:15   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 03/17] perf auxtrace: Add Intel PT as an AUX area tracing type Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 04/17] perf tools: Add Intel PT packet decoder Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 05/17] perf tools: Add Intel PT instruction decoder Adrian Hunter
2015-06-18 22:29   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-19 15:44     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-22 12:40       ` Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 06/17] perf tools: Add Intel PT log Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 07/17] perf tools: Add Intel PT decoder Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 08/17] perf tools: Add Intel PT support Adrian Hunter
2015-06-19 16:04   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-19 16:22     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-19 19:33     ` Adrian Hunter
2015-06-19 19:41       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-22 18:24         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-22 20:26           ` Adrian Hunter
2015-06-22 23:00             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-23  6:29               ` Adrian Hunter
2015-06-23 15:15                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-25 13:37                   ` Adrian Hunter
2015-06-25 13:45                     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-25 23:56                       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-26  0:09                         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-26  6:48                           ` Adrian Hunter
2015-06-26 13:41                             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-26 13:47                               ` Adrian Hunter
2015-06-26 15:08                                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2015-06-26 20:34                             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 09/17] perf tools: Take Intel PT into use Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 10/17] perf tools: Allow auxtrace data alignment Adrian Hunter
2015-06-25  7:58   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 11/17] perf tools: Add Intel BTS support Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 12/17] perf tools: Output sample flags and insn_len from intel_pt Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 13/17] perf tools: Output sample flags and insn_len from intel_bts Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 14/17] perf tools: Intel PT to always update thread stack trace number Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 15/17] perf tools: Intel BTS " Adrian Hunter
2015-06-19 16:11   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-06-22 12:38     ` Adrian Hunter
2015-06-22 14:33       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 16/17] perf tools: Put itrace options into an asciidoc include Adrian Hunter
2015-05-29 13:33 ` [PATCH V6 17/17] perf tools: Add example call-graph script Adrian Hunter

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