perf tools: Per-event time support
This patchkit adds the ability to turn off time stamps per event.
One usaful case for partial time is to work with per-event callgraph to
enable "PEBS threshold > 1" (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/10/196), which
can significantly reduce the sampling overhead.
The event samples with time stamps off will not be ordered.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438677022-34296-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 09bee93..a6cb9af 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -603,6 +603,14 @@
* attr->branch_sample_type = term->val.num;
*/
break;
+ case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_TIME:
+ CHECK_TYPE_VAL(NUM);
+ if (term->val.num > 1) {
+ err->str = strdup("expected 0 or 1");
+ err->idx = term->err_val;
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ break;
case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NAME:
CHECK_TYPE_VAL(STR);
break;
@@ -650,6 +658,10 @@
switch (term->type_term) {
case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_SAMPLE_PERIOD:
ADD_CONFIG_TERM(PERIOD, period, term->val.num);
+ break;
+ case PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_TIME:
+ ADD_CONFIG_TERM(TIME, time, term->val.num);
+ break;
default:
break;
}