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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2015-03-31 00:19:31 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-04-08 15:04:55 +0200
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perf record: Add clockid parameter
Teach perf-record about the new perf_event_attr::{use_clockid, clockid} fields. Add a simple parameter to set the clock (if any) to be used for the events to be recorded into the data file. Since we store the entire perf_event_attr in the EVENT_DESC section we also already store the used clockid in the data file. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150407154851.GR23123@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net [ Conditionally define CLOCK_BOOTTIME, at least rhel6 doesn't have it - dsahern Ditto for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, sles11sp2 doesn't have it - yunlong.song ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -250,6 +250,13 @@ is off by default.
--running-time::
Record running and enabled time for read events (:S)
+-k::
+--clockid::
+Sets the clock id to use for the various time fields in the perf_event_type
+records. See clock_gettime(). In particular CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
+CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW are supported, some events might also allow
+CLOCK_BOOTTIME, CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_TAI.
+
SEE ALSO
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linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]