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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2015-04-30 16:37:32 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-05-05 23:13:01 +0200
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perf record: Add AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode support
Add a new option and support for Instruction Tracing Snapshot Mode. When the new option is selected, no AUX area tracing data is captured until a signal (SIGUSR2) is received. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430404667-10593-10-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -259,6 +259,13 @@ 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.
+-S::
+--snapshot::
+Select AUX area tracing Snapshot Mode. This option is valid only with an
+AUX area tracing event. Optionally the number of bytes to capture per
+snapshot can be specified. In Snapshot Mode, trace data is captured only when
+signal SIGUSR2 is received.
+
SEE ALSO
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linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]