linux/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-data.txt
Wang Nan 9e1a7ea19f perf data ctf: Add '--all' option for 'perf data convert'
After this patch, 'perf data convert' convert comm events to output CTF
stream.

Result:

  # perf record -a sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.378 MB perf.data (73 samples)  ]

  # perf data convert --to-ctf ./out.ctf
  [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into CTF data './out.ctf' ]
  [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.003 MB (73 samples) ]

  # babeltrace --clock-seconds ./out.ctf/
  [10627.402515791] (+?.?????????) cycles:ppp: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF81065AF4, perf_tid = 0, perf_pid = 0, perf_period = 1 }
  [10627.402518972] (+0.000003181) cycles:ppp: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF81065AF4, perf_tid = 0, perf_pid = 0, perf_period = 1 }
  ...    // only sample event is converted

  # perf data convert --all --to-ctf ./out.ctf
  [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into CTF data './out.ctf' ]
  [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.023 MB (73 samples, 384 non-samples) ]

  # babeltrace --clock-seconds ./out.ctf/
  [  0.000000000] (+?.?????????) perf_comm: { cpu_id = 0 }, { pid = 1, tid = 1, comm = "init" }
  [  0.000000000] (+0.000000000) perf_comm: { cpu_id = 0 }, { pid = 2, tid = 2, comm = "kthreadd" }
  [  0.000000000] (+0.000000000) perf_comm: { cpu_id = 0 }, { pid = 3, tid = 3, comm = "ksoftirqd/0" }
  ...    // comm events are converted
  [10627.402515791] (+10627.402515791) cycles:ppp: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF81065AF4, perf_tid = 0, perf_pid = 0, perf_period = 1 }
  [10627.402518972] (+0.000003181) cycles:ppp: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF81065AF4, perf_tid = 0, perf_pid = 0, perf_period = 1 }
  ...    // samples are also converted

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466767332-114472-7-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-06-28 10:54:57 -03:00

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perf-data(1)
==============
NAME
----
perf-data - Data file related processing
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'perf data' [<common options>] <command> [<options>]",
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Data file related processing.
COMMANDS
--------
convert::
Converts perf data file into another format (only CTF [1] format is support by now).
It's possible to set data-convert debug variable to get debug messages from conversion,
like:
perf --debug data-convert data convert ...
OPTIONS for 'convert'
---------------------
--to-ctf::
Triggers the CTF conversion, specify the path of CTF data directory.
-i::
Specify input perf data file path.
-v::
--verbose::
Be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc).
--all::
Convert all events, including non-sample events (comm, fork, ...), to output.
Default is off, only convert samples.
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf[1]
[1] Common Trace Format - http://www.efficios.com/ctf