Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf intel-pt: Do not default to recording all switch events

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 12:39:31PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On systems with many CPUs, recording extra context switch events can be
> excessive and unnecessary. Add perf config intel-pt.all-switch-events=false
> to control the behaviour.
> 
> Example:
> 
>  # perf config intel-pt.all-switch-events=false
>  # perf record -eintel_pt//u uname
>  Linux
>  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.082 MB perf.data ]
>  # perf script -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SWITCH | awk '{print $5}' | uniq -c
>        5 PERF_RECORD_SWITCH
>  # perf config intel-pt.all-switch-events=true
>  # perf record -eintel_pt//u uname
>  Linux
>  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.102 MB perf.data ]
>  # perf script -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SWITCH | awk '{print $5}' | uniq -c
>      180 PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE

Thanks, tested and applied the series.

BTW, I used 'perf report --stats' that shows the number of PERF_RECORD_
events:

Committer testing:

While doing a make -j28 allmodconfig:

  root@five:~# grep "model name" -m1 /proc/cpuinfo
  model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K
  root@five:~#
  root@five:~# perf config intel-pt.all-switch-events=false
  root@five:~# perf record -e intel_pt//u uname
  Linux
  [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.019 MB perf.data ]
  root@five:~# perf report --stats | grep SWITCH_CPU_WIDE
  root@five:~# 
  root@five:~# perf config intel-pt.all-switch-events=true
  root@five:~# perf record -e intel_pt//u uname
  Linux
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.047 MB perf.data ]
  root@five:~# perf report --stats | grep SWITCH_CPU_WIDE
       SWITCH_CPU_WIDE events:        542  (96.4%)
  root@five:~#

- Arnaldo