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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-12-13 23:30:20 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-12-18 18:24:00 +0300
commitac96287cae0851797262da37347b83797db931b3 (patch)
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parent4623ce405d0871e648ba72fdb9c561016e2cc41d (diff)
downloadlinux-ac96287cae0851797262da37347b83797db931b3.tar.xz
perf trace: Allow specifying a set of events to add in perfconfig
To add augmented_raw_syscalls to the events speficied by the user, or be the only one if no events were specified by the user, one can add this to perfconfig: # cat ~/.perfconfig [trace] add_events = /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.o # I.e. pre-compile the augmented_raw_syscalls.c BPF program and make it always load, this way: # perf trace -e open* cat /etc/passwd > /dev/null 0.000 ( 0.013 ms): cat/31557 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /etc/ld.so.cache, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3 0.035 ( 0.007 ms): cat/31557 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /lib64/libc.so.6, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3 0.353 ( 0.009 ms): cat/31557 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, flags: CLOEXEC) = 3 0.424 ( 0.006 ms): cat/31557 openat(dfd: CWD, filename: /etc/passwd) = 3 # Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Luis Cláudio Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0lgj7vh64hg3ce44gsmvj7ud@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
index 661b1fb3f8ba..423cb41f6e3f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
@@ -521,6 +521,14 @@ diff.*::
Possible values are 'delta', 'delta-abs', 'ratio' and
'wdiff'. Default is 'delta'.
+trace.*::
+ trace.add_events::
+ Allows adding a set of events to add to the ones specified
+ by the user, or use as a default one if none was specified.
+ The initial use case is to add augmented_raw_syscalls.o to
+ activate the 'perf trace' logic that looks for syscall
+ pointer contents after the normal tracepoint payload.
+
SEE ALSO
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linkperf:perf[1]