[PATCH v3 2/4] perf arm-spe: Update --switch-events docs in perf-record
From: German Gomez <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-11 13:36:53
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performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds
Update perf-record docs and Arm SPE recording options so that they are consistent. This includes supporting the --no-switch-events flag in Arm SPE as well. Signed-off-by: German Gomez <redacted> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <redacted> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 2 +- tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 2d7df8703..3cf7bac67 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ This option sets the time out limit. The default value is 500 ms. --switch-events:: Record context switch events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_SWITCH or -PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE. In some cases (e.g. Intel PT or CoreSight) +PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE. In some cases (e.g. Intel PT, CoreSight or Arm SPE) switch events will be enabled automatically, which can be suppressed by by the option --no-switch-events.
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c
index 58ba8d15c..725a06cd2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c@@ -169,8 +169,10 @@ static int arm_spe_recording_options(struct auxtrace_record *itr, if (!perf_cpu_map__empty(cpus)) { evsel__set_sample_bit(tracking_evsel, TIME); evsel__set_sample_bit(tracking_evsel, CPU); + /* also track task context switch */ - tracking_evsel->core.attr.context_switch = 1; + if (!record_opts__no_switch_events(opts)) + tracking_evsel->core.attr.context_switch = 1; } return 0;
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2.25.1
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