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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Wiki docs on counting and tracing KVM perf events
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:37:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF52D21.6090407@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim2tmMX-lo45fEpeSUTvw2K1BAgxN-gcDDDNCEJ@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/20/2010 03:24 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>  wrote:
>    
>>> echo 1>/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kvm/enable
>>> cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe>results/trace&
>>>        
>> perf will enable the events by itself (no?), so all you need is is the perf
>> call in the middle.
>>      
> Yes, it will enable events.  However, I am also generating a
> kvm_trace-like log using trace_pipe.  On this box I couldn't get perf
> trace working so I used trace_pipe for the kvm_trace-equivalent and
> perf stat for the kvm_stat equivalent.
>    

Ah.  There's the new shiny trace_cmd as well.

If you're getting a (binary) trace, runing perf stat is redundant since 
it contains the same data.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-13 14:35 Wiki docs on counting and tracing KVM perf events Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-05-13 14:57 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-20  8:15   ` Jes Sorensen
2010-05-20  8:19     ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-20  8:24       ` Jes Sorensen
2010-05-20 11:05         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-05-20 11:10           ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-20 11:16             ` Jes Sorensen
2010-05-20 11:23               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-05-20 12:14                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-20 12:24                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-05-20 12:37                     ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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