perf record: Add an option to take an AUX snapshot on exit
authorAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 6 Aug 2019 14:41:01 +0000 (17:41 +0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:59:59 +0000 (10:59 -0300)
commitce7b0e426ef359ee1d4a6126314ee3547a8eed87
tree6d8433c74638b13e9a262e58c7c4e4456fa1058c
parent73e5de70dca00344cb48e018131a4cadec0fabf0
perf record: Add an option to take an AUX snapshot on exit

It is sometimes useful to generate a snapshot when perf record exits;
I've been using a wrapper script around the workload that would do a
killall -USR2 perf when the workload exits.

This patch makes it easier and also works when perf record is attached
to a pre-existing task. A new snapshot option 'e' can be specified in
-S to enable this behavior:

root@elsewhere:~# perf record -e intel_pt// -Se sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.085 MB perf.data ]

Co-developed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806144101.62892-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
[ Fixed up !HAVE_AUXTRACE_SUPPORT build in builtin-record.c, adding 2 missing __maybe_unused ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/perf.h
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h