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From: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: restricting counted/sampled events
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:26:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <564A039A.5050105@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151116085952.GD5769@krava.brq.redhat.com>

On 11/16/2015 12:59 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:08:07PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> Em Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:18:02AM -0800, Tony Jones escreveu:
>>
>>> I don't believe there is current support to do this,  but maybe I'm
>>> overlooking something?
>>  
>>> I'd like to be able to restrict the pmu (or filter results) to report
>>> counting/sampling between two arbitrary code points,  such as a
>>> tracepoint or kprobe.
>>  
>>> I believe it will require core perf changes and was curious on peoples
>>> thoughts?
>>
>> Something like this:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/25/227
>>
>> Jiri?
> 
> yep.. sounds like toggling ;-) this code was put aside ATM
> 
> not sure it'll be ressurected soon, but I remember Stephane asked
> me about that some time ago (CC-ed), maybe he has more info
> 
> jirka

If noone is currently working on it, I'd be interested in taking it over.

Tony

      reply	other threads:[~2015-11-16 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-12 18:18 restricting counted/sampled events Tony Jones
2015-11-12 22:58 ` Andi Kleen
2015-11-12 23:08 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-11-13  0:05   ` Tony Jones
2015-11-16  8:59   ` Jiri Olsa
2015-11-16 16:26     ` Tony Jones [this message]

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