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author | Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> | 2019-08-06 11:46:06 +0300 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-08-14 10:59:59 -0300 |
commit | 243384dd25c8ea721c5c82a229eaf33cbd1bfd52 (patch) | |
tree | e901bc6d68fe61c257ee4a1bd1ac15a8407c1ef4 | |
parent | 1b9921546a9641aefc4a52c1c635b96b67142993 (diff) |
perf intel-pt: Add brief documentation for PEBS via Intel PT
Document how to select PEBS via Intel PT and how to display synthesized
PEBS samples.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806084606.4021-8-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
[ Update the example to use a group with intel_pt// as the group leader, as per Alex comment ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt index 50c5b60101bd..e0d9e7dd4f17 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt @@ -919,3 +919,18 @@ amended to take the number of elements as a parameter. Note there is currently no advantage to using Intel PT instead of LBR, but that may change in the future if greater use is made of the data. + + +PEBS via Intel PT +================= + +Some hardware has the feature to redirect PEBS records to the Intel PT trace. +Recording is selected by using the aux-output config term e.g. + + perf record -c 10000 -e '{intel_pt/branch=0/,cycles/aux-output/ppp}' uname + +Note that currently, software only supports redirecting at most one PEBS event. + +To display PEBS events from the Intel PT trace, use the itrace 'o' option e.g. + + perf script --itrace=oe |