Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:24:56 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] tools, perf, script: Add --call-trace and --call-ret-trace |
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Em Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 03:39:03PM +0800, leo.yan@linaro.org escreveu: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:19:44AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Seems to me, these two features are _NOT_ only benefit for intel_pt, > > > other hardware tracing (e.g. Arm CoreSight) can enable these features > > > as well. This patch is to document only for intel_pt, later if we > > > enable this feature on Arm platform we need to change the doc; > > > alternatively we can use more general description for these two options > > > at the first place. How about you think for this? > > > > Likely it already works for CoreSight > > I think Kim played with this patch series and he also pointed me for > this series. > > > I specified intel_pt, because if we just say traces the users won't > > know what PMU to specify for record. Being too abstract is > > often not helpful. > > > > If someone successfully tests it on CoreSight they could submit > > a patch to the documentation to add "or <coresightpmu>" to these > > two cases. That would make it then clear for those users too. > > Okay, agree. > > Actually I applied your patch series v6 on the perf latest core branch > and tested on Arm Juno board, I observed there have couple issues, one > is CoreSight trace data doesn't support timestamp so I need to use > '-F,-time' to workaround the command failure; another issue is now > CoreSight is absent to set sample flags so perf fails to resolve > symbols [1]; these two issues are only related with CoreSight decoder > and it's no matter with this patch, so I didn't mention in my previous > replying.
Could I take that as a Tested-by? I.e. you actually applied the patches, run it and saw that it works as advertised, right?
- Arnaldo
> I need a bit more time to work out more formal CoreSight fixing patches > and will send for reviewing (also will include one patch to clarifying > Arm Coresight support in doc as suggested). > > Thanks, > Leo Yan > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/builtin-script.c?h=perf/core#n1128
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