[PATCH v2 3/3] tools/perf: Set 'trace_cycles' as defaultevent for perf kvm record in powerpc
From: Anju T Sudhakar <hidden>
Date: 2019-07-18 18:18:16
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performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds
Use 'trace_imc/trace_cycles' as the default event for 'perf kvm record' in powerpc. Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <redacted> --- tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c
index c55e7405940e..0a06626fb18a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c@@ -177,8 +177,9 @@ int cpu_isa_init(struct perf_kvm_stat *kvm, const char *cpuid __maybe_unused) /* * Incase of powerpc architecture, pmu registers are programmable * by guest kernel. So monitoring guest via host may not provide - * valid samples. It is better to fail the "perf kvm record" - * with default "cycles" event to monitor guest in powerpc. + * valid samples with default 'cycles' event. It is better to use + * 'trace_imc/trace_cycles' event for guest profiling, since it + * can track the guest instruction pointer in the trace-record. * * Function to parse the arguments and return appropriate values. */
@@ -202,8 +203,14 @@ int kvm_add_default_arch_event(int *argc, const char **argv) parse_options(j, tmp, event_options, NULL, PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN); if (!event) { - free(tmp); - return -EINVAL; + if (pmu_have_event("trace_imc", "trace_cycles")) { + argv[j++] = strdup("-e"); + argv[j++] = strdup("trace_imc/trace_cycles/"); + *argc += 2; + } else { + free(tmp); + return -EINVAL; + } } free(tmp);
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