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perf record: Add ability to name registers to record

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This patch modifies the -I/--int-regs option to enablepassing the name
of the registers to sample on interrupt. Registers can be specified by
their symbolic names. For instance on x86, --intr-regs=ax,si.

The motivation is to reduce the size of the perf.data file and the
overhead of sampling by only collecting the registers useful to a
specific analysis. For instance, for value profiling, sampling only the
registers used to passed arguements to functions.

With no parameter, the --intr-regs still records all possible registers
based on the architecture.

To name registers, it is necessary to use the long form of the option,
i.e., --intr-regs:

  $ perf record --intr-regs=si,di,r8,r9 .....

To record any possible registers:

  $ perf record -I .....
  $ perf report --intr-regs ...

To display the register, one can use perf report -D

To list the available registers:

  $ perf record --intr-regs=\?
  available registers: AX BX CX DX SI DI BP SP IP FLAGS CS SS R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441039273-16260-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Stephane Eranian
2015-08-31 18:41:12 +02:00
committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent c5e991ee9d
commit bcc84ec65a
7 changed files with 89 additions and 5 deletions
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tools/perf/builtin-record.c
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@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@
#include "util/cpumap.h"
#include "util/thread_map.h"
#include "util/data.h"
#include "util/perf_regs.h"
#include "util/auxtrace.h"
#include "util/parse-branch-options.h"
#include "util/parse-regs-options.h"
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sched.h>
@@ -1080,8 +1082,9 @@ struct option __record_options[] = {
"sample transaction flags (special events only)"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "per-thread", &record.opts.target.per_thread,
"use per-thread mmaps"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('I', "intr-regs", &record.opts.sample_intr_regs,
"Sample machine registers on interrupt"),
OPT_CALLBACK_OPTARG('I', "intr-regs", &record.opts.sample_intr_regs, NULL, "any register",
"sample selected machine registers on interrupt,"
" use -I ? to list register names", parse_regs),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "running-time", &record.opts.running_time,
"Record running/enabled time of read (:S) events"),
OPT_CALLBACK('k', "clockid", &record.opts,