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Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Ian Rogers Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen --- Changes in V5: Added more examples tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 108 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt index ad39bf20f862..cc0f37f0fa5a 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt @@ -555,6 +555,9 @@ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -570,6 +573,9 @@ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -1915,6 +1921,108 @@ 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 + +The example above uses tracepoints, but any kind of sampled event can be used. + +For example: + + Tracing between arch_cpu_idle_enter() and arch_cpu_idle_exit() using breakpoint events: + + $ sudo cat /proc/kallsyms | sort | grep ' arch_cpu_idle_enter\| arch_cpu_idle_exit' + ffffffffb605bf60 T arch_cpu_idle_enter + ffffffffb614d8a0 W arch_cpu_idle_exit + $ sudo perf record --kcore -a -e intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/k -e mem:0xffffffffb605bf60:x/aux-action=resume/ -e mem:0xffffffffb614d8a0:x/aux-action=pause/ -- sleep 1 + [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] + [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.387 MB perf.data ] + + Tracing __alloc_pages() using kprobes: + + $ sudo perf probe --add '__alloc_pages order' + Added new event: probe:__alloc_pages (on __alloc_pages with order) + $ sudo perf probe --add __alloc_pages%return + Added new event: probe:__alloc_pages__return (on __alloc_pages%return) + $ sudo perf record --kcore -aR -e intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/k -e probe:__alloc_pages/aux-action=resume/ -e probe:__alloc_pages__return/aux-action=pause/ -- sleep 1 + [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] + [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.490 MB perf.data ] + + Tracing starting at main() using a uprobe event: + + $ sudo perf probe -x /usr/bin/uname main + Added new event: probe_uname:main (on main in /usr/bin/uname) + $ sudo perf record -e intel_pt/-aux-action=start-paused/u -e probe_uname:main/aux-action=resume/ -- uname + Linux + [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] + [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data ] + + Tracing occasionally using cycles events with different periods: + + $ perf record --kcore -a -m,64M -e intel_pt/aux-action=start-paused/k -e cycles/aux-action=pause,period=1000000/Pk -e cycles/aux-action=resume,period=10500000/Pk -- firefox + [ perf record: Woken up 19 times to write data ] + [ perf record: Captured and wrote 16.561 MB perf.data ] + + EXAMPLE ------- -- 2.34.1