Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Aug 2020 13:00:12 +0900 | From | Namhyung Kim <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/6] perf tools: Add support to store time of day in CTF data conversion |
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:39:48PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote: > Adding support to convert and store time of day in CTF > data conversion for 'perf data convert' subcommand. > > The perf.data used for conversion needs to have clock data > information - must be recorded with -k/--clockid option). > > New --tod option is added to 'perf data convert' subcommand > to convert data with timestamps converted to wall clock time. > > Record data with clockid set: > # perf record -k CLOCK_MONOTONIC kill > kill: not enough arguments > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.033 MB perf.data (8 samples) ] > > Convert data with TOD timestamps: > # perf data convert --tod --to-ctf ./ctf > [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into CTF data './ctf' ] > [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.000 MB (8 samples) ] > > Display data in perf script: > # perf script -F+tod --ns > perf 262150 2020-07-13 18:38:50.097678523 153633.958246159: 1 cycles: ... > perf 262150 2020-07-13 18:38:50.097682941 153633.958250577: 1 cycles: ... > perf 262150 2020-07-13 18:38:50.097684997 153633.958252633: 7 cycles: ... > ...
I believe this belongs to a later patch.
Thanks Namhyung
> > Display data in babeltrace: > # babeltrace --clock-date ./ctf > [2020-07-13 18:38:50.097678523] (+?.?????????) cycles: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFF ... > [2020-07-13 18:38:50.097682941] (+0.000004418) cycles: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFF ... > [2020-07-13 18:38:50.097684997] (+0.000002056) cycles: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFF ... > ... > > It's available only for recording with clockid specified, > because it's the only case where we can get reference time > to wallclock time. It's can't do that with perf clock yet. > > Error is display if you want to use --tod on data without > clockid specified: > > # perf data convert --tod --to-ctf ./ctf > Can't provide --tod time, missing clock data. Please record with -k/--clockid option. > Failed to setup CTF writer. > Error during conversion setup. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> > --- > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-data.txt | 3 ++ > tools/perf/builtin-data.c | 1 + > tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++--------- > tools/perf/util/data-convert.h | 1 + > 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
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