From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:22:53 +0000 (+0200) Subject: tracing: Support for syscall events raw records in perfcounters X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc1~718^2~48 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=19007a67a64f9b3cbbd7024f972654ebf14daade;p=pandora-kernel.git tracing: Support for syscall events raw records in perfcounters This bring the support for raw syscall events in perfcounters. The arguments or exit value are saved as a raw sample using the PERF_SAMPLE_RAW attribute in a perf counter. Example (for now you must explicitly set the PERF_SAMPLE_RAW flag in perf record): perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_open -f -F 1 -a perf report -D 0x2cbb8 [0x50]: event: 9 . . ... raw event: size 80 bytes . 0000: 09 00 00 00 02 00 50 00 20 e9 39 ab 0a 7f 00 00 ......P. .9.... . 0010: bc 14 00 00 bc 14 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ............... . 0020: 2c 00 00 00 15 01 01 00 bc 14 00 00 bc 14 00 00 ,.............. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ .......................... Event Size struct trace_entry . 0030: 00 00 00 00 46 98 43 02 00 00 00 00 80 08 00 00 ....F.C........ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ptr to file name open flags . 0040: 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ............... ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ . open mode padding 0x2cbb8 [0x50]: PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE (IP, 2): 5308: 0x7f0aab39e920 period: 1 Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Jiaying Zhang Cc: Martin Bligh Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Masami Hiramatsu --- Reading git-diff-tree failed