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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>2018-01-07 17:03:52 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-01-08 16:39:50 +0100
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perf script: Add support to display sample misc field
Adding support to display sample misc field in form of letter for each bit: # perf script -F +misc ... sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636582: 4590 cycles ... sched-messaging 1407 U 28690.636600: 325620 cycles ... sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636608: 19473 cycles ... misc field __________/ The misc bits are assigned to following letters: PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL K PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER U PERF_RECORD_MISC_HYPERVISOR H PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL G PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER g PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA* M PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC E PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT S Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107160356.28203-9-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index 7b622a812a72..93ae8d60e3d3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ OPTIONS
Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff,
srcline, period, iregs, uregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output, brstackinsn,
- brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth, phys_addr, metric.
+ brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth, phys_addr, metric, misc.
Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
e.g., -F sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym and -F trace:time,cpu,trace
@@ -225,6 +225,24 @@ OPTIONS
that the metric computed is averaged over the whole sampling
period, not just for the sample point.
+ For sample events it's possible to display misc field with -F +misc option,
+ following letters are displayed for each bit:
+
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL K
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER U
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_HYPERVISOR H
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL G
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER g
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA* M
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC E
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT S
+
+ $ perf script -F +misc ...
+ sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636582: 4590 cycles ...
+ sched-messaging 1407 U 28690.636600: 325620 cycles ...
+ sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636608: 19473 cycles ...
+ misc field ___________/
+
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