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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>2019-02-20 13:27:57 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-02-20 16:15:35 -0300
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perf script: Allow +- operator for type specific fields option
Add support to add/remove fields for specific event types in -F option. It's now possible to use '+-' after event type, like: # cat > test.c #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello world\n"); while(1) {} } ^D # gcc -g -o test test.c # perf probe -x test 'test.c:5' # perf record -e '{cpu/cpu-cycles,period=10000/,probe_test:main}:S' ./test ... # perf script -Ftrace:+period,-cpu test 3859 396291.117343: 10275 cpu/cpu-cycles,period=10000/: 7f.. test 3859 396291.118234: 11041 cpu/cpu-cycles,period=10000/: ffffff.. test 3859 396291.118234: 1 probe_test:main: test 3859 396291.118248: 8668 cpu/cpu-cycles,period=10000/: ffffff.. test 3859 396291.118263: 10139 cpu/cpu-cycles,period=10000/: ffffff.. Committer testing: Couldn't make the test above work, but tested it with: # perf probe -x hello main Added new event: probe_hello:main (on main in /home/acme/c/hello) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_hello:main -aR sleep 1 # perf record -e probe_hello:main ./hello hello, world [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.025 MB perf.data (1 samples) ] # perf script hello 21454 [002] 254116.874005: probe_hello:main: (401126) # # perf script -Ftrace:+period,-cpu hello 21454 254116.874005: 1 probe_hello:main: (401126) Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190220122800.864-4-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -159,6 +159,12 @@ OPTIONS
the override, and the result of the above is that only S/W and H/W
events are displayed with the given fields.
+ It's possible tp add/remove fields only for specific event type:
+
+ -Fsw:-cpu,-period
+
+ removes cpu and period from software events.
+
For the 'wildcard' option if a user selected field is invalid for an
event type, a message is displayed to the user that the option is
ignored for that type. For example: