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+# system call counts
+# (c) 2010, Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
+# Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2
+#
+# Displays system-wide system call totals, broken down by syscall.
+# If a [comm] arg is specified, only syscalls called by [comm] are displayed.
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+sys.path.append(os.environ['PERF_EXEC_PATH'] + \
+	'/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/lib/Perf/Trace')
+
+from perf_trace_context import *
+from Core import *
+
+usage = "perf trace -s syscall-counts.py [comm]\n";
+
+for_comm = None
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 2:
+	sys.exit(usage)
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+	for_comm = sys.argv[1]
+
+syscalls = autodict()
+
+def trace_begin():
+	pass
+
+def trace_end():
+	print_syscall_totals()
+
+def raw_syscalls__sys_enter(event_name, context, common_cpu,
+	common_secs, common_nsecs, common_pid, common_comm,
+	id, args):
+	if for_comm is not None:
+		if common_comm != for_comm:
+			return
+	try:
+		syscalls[id] += 1
+	except TypeError:
+		syscalls[id] = 1
+
+def print_syscall_totals():
+    if for_comm is not None:
+	    print "\nsyscall events for %s:\n\n" % (for_comm),
+    else:
+	    print "\nsyscall events:\n\n",
+
+    print "%-40s  %10s\n" % ("event", "count"),
+    print "%-40s  %10s\n" % ("----------------------------------------", \
+                                 "-----------"),
+
+    for id, val in sorted(syscalls.iteritems(), key = lambda(k, v): (v, k), \
+				  reverse = True):
+	    print "%-40d  %10d\n" % (id, val),