linux_dsm_epyc7002/tools
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 899e5ffbf2 perf record: Introduce --switch-output-event
Now we can use it with --overwrite to have a flight recorder mode that
gets snapshot requests from arbitrary events that are processed in the
side band thread together with the PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT processing.

Example:

To collect scheduler events until a recvmmsg syscall happens, system
wide:

  [root@five a]# rm -f perf.data.2020042717*
  [root@five a]# perf record --overwrite -e sched:*switch,syscalls:*recvmmsg --switch-output-event syscalls:sys_enter_recvmmsg
  [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
  [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2020042717585458 ]
  [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
  [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2020042717590235 ]
  [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
  [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2020042717590398 ]
  ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2020042717590511 ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 7.244 MB perf.data.<timestamp> ]

So in the above case we had 3 snapshots, the fourth was forced by
control+C:

  [root@five a]# ls -la
  total 20440
  drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root    4096 Apr 27 17:59 .
  dr-xr-x---. 12 root root    4096 Apr 27 17:46 ..
  -rw-------.  1 root root 3936125 Apr 27 17:58 perf.data.2020042717585458
  -rw-------.  1 root root 5074869 Apr 27 17:59 perf.data.2020042717590235
  -rw-------.  1 root root 4291037 Apr 27 17:59 perf.data.2020042717590398
  -rw-------.  1 root root 7617037 Apr 27 17:59 perf.data.2020042717590511
  [root@five a]#

One can make this more precise by adding the switch output event to the
main -e events list, as since this is done asynchronously, a few events
after the signal event will appear in the snapshots, as can be seen
with:

  [root@five a]# rm -f perf.data.20200427175*
  [root@five a]# perf record --overwrite -e sched:*switch,syscalls:*recvmmsg --switch-output-event syscalls:sys_enter_recvmmsg
  [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
  [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2020042718024203 ]
  [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
  [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2020042718024301 ]
  [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
  [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2020042718024484 ]
  ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2020042718024562 ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 7.337 MB perf.data.<timestamp> ]
  [root@five a]# perf script -i perf.data.2020042718024203 | tail -15
       PacerThread 148586 [005] 122.830729: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=PacerThread prev_pid=148586...
           swapper      0 [000] 122.833588: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/0 prev_pid=...
    NetworkManager   1251 [000] 122.833619: syscalls:sys_enter_recvmmsg: fd: 0x0000001c, mmsg: 0x7ffe83054a1...
           swapper      0 [002] 122.833624: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/2 prev_pid=...
           swapper      0 [003] 122.833624: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/3 prev_pid=...
    NetworkManager   1251 [000] 122.833626: syscalls:sys_exit_recvmmsg: 0x1
   kworker/3:3-eve 158946 [003] 122.833628: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/3:3 prev_pid=15894...
           swapper      0 [004] 122.833641: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/4 prev_pid=...
    NetworkManager   1251 [000] 122.833642: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=NetworkManage...
              perf 228273 [002] 122.833645: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=perf prev_pid=22827...
           swapper      0 [011] 122.833646: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/1...
           swapper      0 [002] 122.833648: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/...
   kworker/0:2-eve 207387 [000] 122.833648: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/0:2 prev_pid=20738...
   kworker/2:3-eve 232038 [002] 122.833652: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/2:3 prev_pid=23203...
              perf 235825 [003] 122.833653: sched:sched_switch: prev_comm=perf prev_pid=23582...
  [root@five a]#

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200429131106.27974-8-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2020-05-05 16:35:29 -03:00
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