From d4575f5fce71b47431a98096a9f74b7492854633 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Hunter Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:11:01 +0300 Subject: perf intel-pt: Time filter logged perf events Change the debug logging (when used with the --time option) to time filter logged perf events, but allow that to be overridden by using "d+a" instead of plain "d". That can reduce the size of the log file. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200710151104.15137-10-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt index d22dead7bbe0..4666e4a83615 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt @@ -886,6 +886,9 @@ and that the resulting file may be very large. The "d" option may be followed by flags which affect what debug messages will or will not be logged. Each flag must be preceded by either '+' or '-'. The flags support by Intel PT are: -a Suppress logging of perf events + +a Log all perf events +By default, logged perf events are filtered by any specified time ranges, but +flag +a overrides that. In addition, the period of the "instructions" event can be specified. e.g. -- cgit v1.2.3