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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-08-12 11:18:01 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-12 14:10:51 +0200
commit0a5ac84650fb7a7f226814103d95724e34b012ae (patch)
tree8fb0ec43e619a8aca91791d113663e68f220d30a /tools/perf
parent1340e6bbaff7ff7f6f75eb4a5c34933efce84a84 (diff)
perf record: Add missing -C option support for specifying profile cpu
perf top supports a -C for setting the profile CPU, but perf record does not. This adds the same option for perf record, allowing the user to specify a specific target profile CPU. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090812091801.GC12579@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 30b83def03d..de76008fbaa 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ static const char *output_name = "perf.data";
static int group = 0;
static unsigned int realtime_prio = 0;
static int system_wide = 0;
+static int profile_cpu = -1;
static pid_t target_pid = -1;
static int inherit = 1;
static int force = 0;
@@ -431,6 +432,8 @@ try_again:
if (err == EPERM)
die("Permission error - are you root?\n");
+ else if (err == ENODEV && profile_cpu != -1)
+ die("No such device - did you specify an out-of-range profile CPU?\n");
/*
* If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer
@@ -564,9 +567,15 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
if (pid == -1)
pid = getpid();
- open_counters(-1, pid);
- } else for (i = 0; i < nr_cpus; i++)
- open_counters(i, target_pid);
+ open_counters(profile_cpu, pid);
+ } else {
+ if (profile_cpu != -1) {
+ open_counters(profile_cpu, target_pid);
+ } else {
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_cpus; i++)
+ open_counters(i, target_pid);
+ }
+ }
if (file_new)
perf_header__write(header, output);
@@ -645,6 +654,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
"system-wide collection from all CPUs"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('A', "append", &append_file,
"append to the output file to do incremental profiling"),
+ OPT_INTEGER('C', "profile_cpu", &profile_cpu,
+ "CPU to profile on"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &force,
"overwrite existing data file"),
OPT_LONG('c', "count", &default_interval,