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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Karim Yaghmour <karim.yaghmour@opersys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: Reading perf counters at ftrace trace boundaries
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:23:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87haevog75.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5208263D.2080205@opersys.com> (Karim Yaghmour's message of "Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:03:09 -0300")

Karim Yaghmour <karim.yaghmour@opersys.com> writes:

> Wondering if there's a way for reading perf counters in the kernel. I'd
> like to read/record perf counters on ftrace function tracing
> entries/exits to provide a rundown of the value of various counters on
> function call boundaries.

KVM does it, see arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c. Essentially it would be doing RDPMC.

But the overhead will be likely very high, some sampling approach
is likely better.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-12  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-12  0:03 Reading perf counters at ftrace trace boundaries Karim Yaghmour
2013-08-12  1:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2013-08-12  1:39   ` Karim Yaghmour
2013-08-12  1:47     ` Andi Kleen
2013-08-12  1:59       ` Karim Yaghmour
2013-08-12  2:24 ` zhangwei(Jovi)
2013-08-12 15:26   ` Karim Yaghmour
2013-08-13  7:12     ` zhangwei(Jovi)

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