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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2022-05-24 10:54:29 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2022-05-26 12:36:57 -0300
commit7d189cadbeebc778fe19c245447d155458e6f1e3 (patch)
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parentperf intel-pt: Use evlist__add_dummy_on_all_cpus() for switch tracking (diff)
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perf intel-pt: Track sideband system-wide when needed
User space tasks can migrate between CPUs, so when tracing selected CPUs, sideband for all CPUs is still needed. This is in preparation for allowing system-wide events on all CPUs while the user requested events are on only user requested CPUs. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220524075436.29144-9-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c18
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
index 0ee93894a0da..06c2cdfd8f2f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
@@ -864,20 +864,22 @@ static int intel_pt_recording_options(struct auxtrace_record *itr,
/* Add dummy event to keep tracking */
if (opts->full_auxtrace) {
+ bool need_system_wide_tracking;
struct evsel *tracking_evsel;
- err = parse_events(evlist, "dummy:u", NULL);
- if (err)
- return err;
+ /*
+ * User space tasks can migrate between CPUs, so when tracing
+ * selected CPUs, sideband for all CPUs is still needed.
+ */
+ need_system_wide_tracking = evlist->core.has_user_cpus &&
+ !intel_pt_evsel->core.attr.exclude_user;
- tracking_evsel = evlist__last(evlist);
+ tracking_evsel = evlist__add_aux_dummy(evlist, need_system_wide_tracking);
+ if (!tracking_evsel)
+ return -ENOMEM;
evlist__set_tracking_event(evlist, tracking_evsel);
- tracking_evsel->core.attr.freq = 0;
- tracking_evsel->core.attr.sample_period = 1;
-
- tracking_evsel->no_aux_samples = true;
if (need_immediate)
tracking_evsel->immediate = true;