linux/tools
Adrian Hunter b45fc0bfaf perf tools: Add Intel PT support for using MTC packets
MTC packets are a new Intel PT feature.

MTC packets provide finer grain timestamp information than TSC packets.

Support for this feature is indicated by:

  /sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/caps/mtc

which contains "1" if the feature is supported and "0" otherwise.

MTC packets can be requested using a PMU config term e.g. perf record -e
intel_pt/mtc/u sleep 1

The frequency of MTC packets can also be specified.  e.g. perf record -e
intel_pt/mtc,mtc_period=2/u sleep 1

The default value is 3 or the nearest lower value that is supported.  0
is always supported.

Valid values are given by:

/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/caps/mtc_periods

which contains a hexadecimal value, the bits of which represent valid
values e.g. bit 2 set means value 2 is valid.

The value is converted to the MTC frequency as:

	CTC-frequency / (2 ^ value)

e.g. value 3 means one eighth of CTC-frequency

Where CTC is the hardware crystal clock, the frequency of which can be
related to TSC via values provided in cpuid leaf 0x15.

If an invalid value is entered, the error message will give a list of
valid values e.g.

	$ perf record -e intel_pt/mtc_period=15/u uname
	Invalid mtc_period for intel_pt. Valid values are: 0,3,6,9

tools/perf/Documentation/intel-pt.txt is updated in a later patch as
there are a number of new features being added.

For more information refer to the June 2015 or later Intel 64 and IA-32
Architectures SDM Chapter 36 Intel Processor Trace.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437150840-31811-22-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-08-24 17:48:06 -03:00
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arch tools include: Add basic atomic.h implementation from the kernel sources 2015-05-08 16:11:05 -03:00
build perf tools: Add Intel PT instruction decoder 2015-08-17 11:11:36 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
hv Drivers: hv: fcopy: full handshake support 2015-05-24 12:17:42 -07:00
iio tools:iio:iio_utils: pass strings as const 2015-06-01 08:40:26 +01:00
include tools: Copy rbtree_augmented.h from the kernel 2015-07-05 22:59:05 -03:00
laptop/freefall Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/ 2015-06-08 16:42:07 -06:00
lguest tools/lguest: don't use legacy definitions for net device in example launcher. 2015-02-13 17:15:55 +10:30
lib tools lib traceevent: Add checks for returned EVENT_ERROR type 2015-08-21 10:35:09 -03:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: fix segfault on disabled debugging log output 2015-05-27 00:24:10 -04:00
nfsd
perf perf tools: Add Intel PT support for using MTC packets 2015-08-24 17:48:06 -03:00
power Additional ACPICA material for v4.2-rc1 2015-07-02 17:11:28 -07:00
scripts tools lib traceevent: Add global QUIET_CC_FPIC build output 2013-12-19 16:18:10 -03:00
testing linux-kselftest-4.2-rc5 2015-07-28 10:09:53 -07:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: fixed the 'make install' command 2015-05-09 13:36:58 +08:00
time tools: add script to test udelay 2014-07-23 10:16:38 -07:00
usb tools: ffs-aio-example: use endpoint addresses from descriptors 2015-01-15 09:41:49 -06:00
virtio tools/virtio: add virtio 1.0 in vringh_test 2014-12-15 23:49:22 +02:00
vm tools: Fix tools/vm build 2015-05-12 18:11:06 -03:00
Makefile Staging driver patches for 4.2-rc1 2015-06-26 15:46:08 -07:00