kernel/tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt, branch linux-rolling-stable

perf intel-pt: Update intel-pt.txt file with new location of the documentation

2020-03-11T14:00:33Z

Make it easy for people looking in intel-pt.txt to find the new file. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200311122034.3697-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Rename intel-pt.txt and put it in man page format

2020-03-11T14:00:05Z

Make the Intel PT documentation into a man page. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200311122034.3697-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Add support for recording AUX area samples

2019-11-22T13:48:13Z

Set up the default number of mmap pages, default sample size and default psb_period for AUX area sampling. Add documentation also. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191115124225.5247-14-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Add brief documentation for PEBS via Intel PT

2019-08-14T13:59:59Z

Document how to select PEBS via Intel PT and how to display synthesized PEBS samples. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806084606.4021-8-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin [ Update the example to use a group with intel_pt// as the group leader, as per Alex comment ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Document IPC usage

2019-06-05T12:47:57Z

Add brief documentation about instructions-per-cycle (IPC) information derived from Intel PT. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520113728.14389-13-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Fix itrace defaults for perf script intel-pt documentation

2019-05-28T21:37:42Z

Fix intel-pt documentation to reflect the change of itrace defaults for perf script. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 4eb068157121 ("perf script: Make itrace script default to all calls") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520113728.14389-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf scripts python: call-graph-from-sql.py: Rename to exported-sql-viewer.py

2018-10-23T17:26:44Z

Additional reports will be added to the script so rename to reflect the more general purpose. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181001062853.28285-13-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Fix syntax in documentation of config option

2017-09-01T17:45:59Z

As specified in tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt, perf configuration items must be in 'key = value' format, otherwise the following error message occurs: $ perf record -e intel_pt//u -- ls bad config file line 2 in ~/.perfconfig $ cat .perfconfig [intel-pt] mispred-all Changing to assigning a value to the key 'mispred-all' fixes the issue: $ perf record -e intel_pt//u -- ls [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Capured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data] $ cat .perfconfig [intel-pt] mispred-all = true Signed-off-by: Jack Henschel Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831080535.2157-1-jackdev@mailbox.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script python: Rename call-graph-from-postgresql.py to call-graph-from-sql.py

2017-08-15T19:38:06Z

Rename call-graph-from-postgresql.py to call-graph-from-sql.py in preparation for adding support to it for SQLite 3. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501749090-20357-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf script python: Add support for exporting to sqlite3

2017-08-15T19:37:55Z

Add support for exporting to SQLite 3 the same data as the PostgreSQL export. Committer note: Tested on RHEL 7.4 using the 1.2.2-4el python-pyside packages from EPEL. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501749090-20357-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo