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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com, jolsa@kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
	mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, vincent.weaver@maine.edu
Subject: Re: perf.data file format specification draft
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:11:29 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150514131129.GE23588@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150514122517.GZ2366@two.firstfloor.org>

Em Thu, May 14, 2015 at 02:25:17PM +0200, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> Since there are more and more consumers I started a description of the
> on-disk perf.data format. This does not replace the kernel perf event
> description or the manpage, but describes the parts that perf record
> adds.
> 
> So far it is still has some gaps and needs review. Eventually this should
> become part of the perf documentation.
> 
> Steven, would be good if you could fill in some details on how trace
> data works. 

I guess that would be Frédéric, and also I think this is a good
opportunity to remove some stuff that seem to be collected but unused,
namely a kallsyms copy and maybe something else.

> Adrian, would be good if you could fill in the missing bits for
> auxtrace/itrace.
> Everyone else, please review and add missing information.

Thanks for doing this work!

IIRC there is a presentation written by Jiri where parts of this is
documented, lemme try to find it...

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-14 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-14 12:25 perf.data file format specification draft Andi Kleen
2015-05-14 13:11 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2015-05-14 13:13   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-05-18  4:21   ` Namhyung Kim
2015-05-18 16:00     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-05-15  8:22 ` Stephane Eranian
2015-05-15 12:06   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-05-15 13:19     ` Andi Kleen
2015-05-15 13:34       ` Steven Rostedt
2015-05-15 13:18   ` Andi Kleen

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