From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
To: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, acme@kernel.org,
namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com,
jolsa@kernel.org, irogers@google.com, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
james.clark@linaro.org, howardchu95@gmail.com,
atomlin@atomlin.com, neelx@suse.com, chjohnst@mail.com,
sean@ashe.io, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] perf trace: Add --bitmask-list command-line option
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:15:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260719001510.398616-3-atomlin@atomlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260719001510.398616-1-atomlin@atomlin.com>
Introduce a new '--bitmask-list' command-line option for 'perf trace'.
When this option is specified, the formatting of cpumasks is delegated
to bitmap_scnprintf(), enabling cpumasks to be displayed as a condensed,
human-readable list (e.g., "0,2-5,7") instead of the default hexadecimal
representation. An example is provided below:
❯ sudo ./perf trace --show-cpu --bitmask-list --event ipi:ipi_send_cpumask --max-event 5
0.000 [000] Xorg/1434 ipi:ipi_send_cpumask(cpumask: 2-3,6, callsite: 0xffffffff9994f8e4, callback: 0xffffffff9994fdd0)
694.527 [002] chrome/2894 ipi:ipi_send_cpumask(cpumask: 1,3-5, callsite: 0xffffffff9994f8e4, callback: 0xffffffff9994fdd0)
2666.608 [003] Chrome_ChildIO/2948 ipi:ipi_send_cpumask(cpumask: 4,7, callsite: 0xffffffff9994f8e4, callback: 0xffffffff9994fdd0)
2673.638 [000] Chrome_IOThrea/2920 ipi:ipi_send_cpumask(cpumask: 2-5, callsite: 0xffffffff9994f8e4, callback: 0xffffffff9994fdd0)
2714.228 [005] chrome/3375 ipi:ipi_send_cpumask(cpumask: 0-4,6-7, callsite: 0xffffffff9994f8e4, callback: 0xffffffff9994fdd0)
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt | 4 ++++
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
index d0b6c771a1b9..d20b43ea3d37 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace.txt
@@ -247,6 +247,10 @@ the thread executes on the designated CPUs. Default is to monitor all CPUs.
pretty-printing serves as a fallback to hand-crafted pretty printers, as the latter can
better pretty-print integer flags and struct pointers.
+--bitmask-list::
+ Show bitmasks as a human-readable, condensed list (e.g. "0,2-5,7")
+ instead of the default hexadecimal representation.
+
--bpf-summary::
Collect system call statistics in BPF. This is only for live mode and
works well with -s/--summary option where no argument information is
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index f8b8431f9543..0142a16830de 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ struct trace {
bool force;
bool vfs_getname;
bool force_btf;
+ bool bitmask_list;
bool summary_bpf;
int trace_pgfaults;
char *perfconfig_events;
@@ -3279,6 +3280,9 @@ static size_t trace__fprintf_tp_fields(struct trace *trace, struct perf_sample *
if (syscall_arg.len == 0) {
printed += scnprintf(bf + printed, size - printed, "0");
+ } else if (trace->bitmask_list) {
+ printed += bitmap_scnprintf(mask, syscall_arg.len * 8,
+ bf + printed, size - printed);
} else {
int i;
bool skip_zero = true;
@@ -5589,6 +5593,7 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv)
"start"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "force-btf", &trace.force_btf, "Prefer btf_dump general pretty printer"
"to customized ones"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "bitmask-list", &trace.bitmask_list, "Show bitmask as a human-readable list"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "bpf-summary", &trace.summary_bpf, "Summary syscall stats in BPF"),
OPT_INTEGER(0, "max-summary", &trace.max_summary,
"Max number of entries in the summary."),
--
2.54.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-19 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-19 0:15 [PATCH v3 0/2] perf trace: Correct cpumask formatting and add --bitmask-list Aaron Tomlin
2026-07-19 0:15 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] perf trace: Correct default cpumask formatting to hexadecimal Aaron Tomlin
2026-07-20 5:02 ` Namhyung Kim
2026-07-19 0:15 ` Aaron Tomlin [this message]
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