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authorAlexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com>2016-10-10 07:43:28 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-10-24 16:07:43 +0200
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perf trace: Implement --delay
In the perf wiki todo-list[1], there is an entry regarding initial-delay and 'perf trace'; the following small patch tries to fulfill this point. It has been generated against the branch tip/perf/core. It has only been implemented in the "trace__run" case. Ex.: $ sudo strace -- ./perf trace --delay 5 sleep 1 2>&1 ... fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 ioctl(7, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID, 0x7ffc8fd35718) = 0 ioctl(11, PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT, 0x7) = 0 fcntl(11, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 ioctl(11, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID, 0x7ffc8fd35718) = 0 write(6, "\0", 1) = 1 close(6) = 0 nanosleep({0, 5000000}, NULL) = 0 # DELAY OF 5 MS BEFORE ENABLING THE EVENTS ioctl(3, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) = 0 ioctl(4, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) = 0 ioctl(5, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) = 0 ioctl(7, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) = 0 ... [1]: https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Todo Signed-off-by: Alexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com> Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161010054328.4028-2-alexis.berlemont@gmail.com [ Add entry to the manpage, cut'n'pasted from stat's and record's ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ OPTIONS
Prefixing with ! shows all syscalls but the ones specified. You may
need to escape it.
+-D msecs::
+--delay msecs::
+After starting the program, wait msecs before measuring. This is useful to
+filter out the startup phase of the program, which is often very different.
+
-o::
--output=::
Output file name.