Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf: add ability to sample physical data addresses

David Ahern
2013-07-30T14:50:21Z

On 7/30/13 8:21 AM, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> One thing that bothers me with the MMAP2 approach is that
> it forces integration into perf. Now, you will need to analyze
> the MMAP2 records. With my sample_type approach, you
> simply needed a cmdline option on perf record, and then
> you could dump the sample using perf report -D and feed

what do you want that is not coming out via perf-script?

> them into a post-processing script. But now, the analysis
> needs to be integrated into perf or the tool needs to parse
> the full perf.data file.

you mean parsed during perf-record?

David