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Jiwei Sun 6d57581659 perf record: Add support for limit perf output file size
The patch adds a new option to limit the output file size, then based on
it, we can create a wrapper of the perf command that uses the option to
avoid exhausting the disk space by the unconscious user.

In order to make the perf.data parsable, we just limit the sample data
size, since the perf.data consists of many headers and sample data and
other data, the actual size of the recorded file will bigger than the
setting value.

Testing it:

  # ./perf record -a -g --max-size=10M
  Couldn't synthesize bpf events.
  [ perf record: perf size limit reached (10249 KB), stopping session ]
  [ perf record: Woken up 32 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 10.133 MB perf.data (71964 samples) ]

  # ls -lh perf.data
  -rw------- 1 root root 11M Oct 22 14:32 perf.data

  # ./perf record -a -g --max-size=10K
  [ perf record: perf size limit reached (10 KB), stopping session ]
  Couldn't synthesize bpf events.
  [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.546 MB perf.data (69 samples) ]

  # ls -l perf.data
  -rw------- 1 root root 1626952 Oct 22 14:36 perf.data

Committer notes:

Fixed the build in multiple distros by using PRIu64 to print u64 struct
members, fixing this:

  builtin-record.c: In function 'record__write':
  builtin-record.c:150:5: error: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u64' [-Werror=format=]
       rec->bytes_written >> 10);
       ^
    CC       /tmp/build/pe

Signed-off-by: Jiwei Sun <jiwei.sun@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Danter <richard.danter@windriver.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191022080901.3841-1-jiwei.sun@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-11-07 08:30:19 -03:00
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android.txt perf tools: Update android build documentation 2016-07-04 20:27:27 -03:00
asciidoc.conf perf docs: Allow man page date to be specified 2019-09-27 09:26:14 -03:00
asciidoctor-extensions.rb perf Documentation: Support for asciidoctor 2018-04-26 13:47:10 -03:00
build-xed.txt perf script: Add --insn-trace for instruction decoding 2018-10-24 15:29:50 -03:00
Build.txt perf tools: Add doc about how to build perf with Asan and UBSan 2019-03-19 16:52:04 -03:00
callchain-overhead-calculation.txt perf tools: Document --children option in more detail 2015-04-29 10:38:06 -03:00
db-export.txt perf db-export: Add brief documentation 2019-06-05 09:47:57 -03:00
examples.txt perf record: Remove -f/--force option 2013-07-08 17:37:25 -03:00
intel-bts.txt perf tools: Add Intel BTS support 2015-08-21 11:34:10 -03:00
intel-pt.txt perf intel-pt: Add brief documentation for PEBS via Intel PT 2019-08-14 10:59:59 -03:00
itrace.txt perf tools: Add itrace option 'o' to synthesize aux-output events 2019-08-14 10:59:59 -03:00
jit-interface.txt perf symbols: Add description of JIT interface 2012-08-13 14:55:02 -03:00
jitdump-specification.txt perf docs: Correct and clarify jitdump spec 2019-09-30 17:29:51 -03:00
Makefile perf tools: Fix a typo in a variable name in the Documentation Makefile 2019-08-08 15:41:10 -03:00
manpage-1.72.xsl
manpage-base.xsl
manpage-bold-literal.xsl
manpage-normal.xsl
manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
perf-annotate.txt perf annotate: Add --percent-type option 2018-08-08 15:55:53 -03:00
perf-archive.txt perf archive: Remove duplicated 'runs' in man page 2013-12-09 15:21:45 -03:00
perf-bench.txt perf bench: Add epoll_ctl(2) benchmark 2018-11-21 22:39:55 -03:00
perf-buildid-cache.txt perf buildid-cache: Support --purge-all option 2018-04-26 09:30:26 -03:00
perf-buildid-list.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-c2c.txt perf mem/c2c: Fix perf_mem_events to support powerpc 2019-02-04 11:32:14 -03:00
perf-config.txt perf trace: Allow choosing how to augment the tracepoint arguments 2019-10-07 12:22:18 -03:00
perf-data.txt perf tools: Correct title markers for asciidoctor 2018-03-07 10:26:32 -03:00
perf-diff.txt perf diff: Report noisy for cycles diff 2019-10-11 10:57:00 -03:00
perf-evlist.txt perf evlist: Document missing --force option 2017-11-16 14:50:07 -03:00
perf-ftrace.txt perf tools: Correct title markers for asciidoctor 2018-03-07 10:26:32 -03:00
perf-help.txt
perf-inject.txt perf inject: Document missing options 2017-11-16 14:50:05 -03:00
perf-kallsyms.txt perf tools: Correct title markers for asciidoctor 2018-03-07 10:26:32 -03:00
perf-kmem.txt perf kmem: Document a missing option & an argument 2018-02-16 14:55:42 -03:00
perf-kvm.txt perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out 2015-06-19 18:27:13 -03:00
perf-list.txt perf list: Hide deprecated events by default 2019-10-19 15:35:01 -03:00
perf-lock.txt perf lock: Document missing options 2017-11-16 14:50:04 -03:00
perf-mem.txt perf mem/c2c: Fix perf_mem_events to support powerpc 2019-02-04 11:32:14 -03:00
perf-probe.txt perf-probe: Add user memory access attribute support 2019-05-25 23:04:42 -04:00
perf-record.txt perf record: Add support for limit perf output file size 2019-11-07 08:30:19 -03:00
perf-report.txt perf report: Add --switch-on/--switch-off events 2019-08-16 12:14:33 -03:00
perf-sched.txt perf sched: Fix documentation for timehist 2018-04-12 10:33:36 -03:00
perf-script-perl.txt perf tools: Correct title markers for asciidoctor 2018-03-07 10:26:32 -03:00
perf-script-python.txt perf script python: Add dict fields introduction to Documentation 2018-06-06 15:40:10 -03:00
perf-script.txt perf script: Allow specifying event to switch off processing of other events 2019-08-15 12:24:16 -03:00
perf-stat.txt perf stat: Add --per-node agregation support 2019-11-06 15:49:39 -03:00
perf-test.txt perf test: Add -F/--dont-fork option 2016-06-30 18:27:45 -03:00
perf-timechart.txt perf timechart: Document missing --force option 2017-11-16 14:50:06 -03:00
perf-top.txt perf top: Add --switch-on/--switch-off events 2019-08-15 16:03:26 -03:00
perf-trace.txt perf trace: Introduce --errno-summary 2019-10-15 13:03:49 -03:00
perf-version.txt perf version: Add man page 2018-04-02 13:52:23 -03:00
perf.data-directory-format.txt perf record: Put a copy of kcore into the perf.data directory 2019-11-06 15:43:05 -03:00
perf.data-file-format.txt perf.data documentation: Clarify HEADER_SAMPLE_TOPOLOGY format 2019-08-14 10:59:59 -03:00
perf.txt perf docs: Add description for stderr 2019-05-16 14:17:24 -03:00
perfconfig.example perf config: Show default report configuration in example and docs 2016-09-01 09:44:13 -03:00
tips.txt perf tools: Fix typos / broken sentences 2019-07-02 16:08:16 -03:00