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perf tools: Add support for skipping itrace instructions
authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:45:38 +0000 (10:45 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:14:09 +0000 (11:14 -0300)
commit46f6bdbc82eacd346bb4e9c52768c58915922716
tree4bee0f637581706387688651a57fb867c7f6e559
parent83cbd822a231bfd1976ff9cd46d05975e53d3c8d
perf tools: Add support for skipping itrace instructions

When using 'perf script' to look at PT traces it is often useful to
ignore the initialization code at the beginning.

On larger traces which may have many millions of instructions in
initialization code doing that in a pipeline can be very slow, with perf
script spending a lot of CPU time calling printf and writing data.

This patch adds an extension to the --itrace argument that skips 'n'
events (instructions, branches or transactions) at the beginning. This
is much more efficient.

v2:
Add support for BTS (Adrian Hunter)
Document in itrace.txt
Fix branch check
Check transactions and instructions too

Committer note:

To test intel_pt one needs to make sure VT-x isn't active, i.e.
stopping KVM guests on the test machine, as described by Andi Kleen
at http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301234953.GD23621@tassilo.jf.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459187142-20035-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt
tools/perf/Documentation/itrace.txt
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
tools/perf/util/intel-bts.c
tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c