Re: [PATCH 0/4] perf: Teach perf tool to profile sleep times (v2)

From: Andrey Wagin
Date: Wed Aug 08 2012 - 03:24:28 EST


2012/8/8 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:02:18 +0400, Andrey Wagin wrote:
>> 2012/8/8 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>> $ ./perf record -e sched:sched_stat_sleep -e sched:sched_switch \
>>>> -e sched:sched_process_exit -gP -o ~/perf.data.raw ~/foo
>>
>> Actually this string is not completed, because sched:sched_switch
>> should be filtered by state.
>>
>>>> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>>>> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.015 MB /root/perf.data.raw (~661 samples) ]
>>>> $ ./perf inject -v -s -i ~/perf.data.raw -o ~/perf.data
>>>> $ ./perf report -i ~/perf.data
>>>
>>> The usage like this is too specific and hard to use IMHO. How about
>>> putting it somehow into perf sched or new command?
>>>
>>> /me don't have an idea though. :-)
>>>
>>
>> I'm going to add a script, so the usage will look like this:
>> $ perf script record sched-stat -e sched:sched_stat_sleep <command>
>> This command will collect sched_stat_* and proper sched_switch events
>
> ??? That means '-e sched:sched_stat_sleep' part can be removed from
> command line, no?

No. My method works for all kind of sched_stat_* events, so you need
to specify an event type which should be traced.
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