Em Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 07:41:31PM -0700, Stephane Eranian escreveu: > Hi, > > I am doing the following simple collection with callchain and load profiling: > > $ perf record -g -d -e cpu/event=0xd0,umask=0x81/pp my_test_program > > But when I type: > $ perf script -F ip,addr > ffff9d4821346878 > ffffffff9d58df25 > ffffffff9d58e054 > ffffffff9d5965bb > ffffffff9d640650 > ffffffff9d697d06 > ffffffff9d63ec60 > ffffffff9d640322 > ffffffff9d64070c > ffffffff9d455a60 > 7030c7 > > ffff9d4638ba84a0 > ffffffff9d5df447 > ffffffff9d5eaf4a > ffffffff9d63e165 > ffffffff9d63e439 > ffffffff9d697d98 > ffffffff9d63ec60 > ffffffff9d640322 > ffffffff9d64070c > ffffffff9d455a60 > 7030c7 > I also see the callchain and it is not clear which is the IP. Further > more parsing becomes more difficult because of multiple lines per > sample. I understand that multiline is likely because of > symbolization. But if I don't want symbolization, it should be > possible to print all in one line.
Humm, to have this not break possibly existing scripts, perhaps we can have something like: $ perf script -F ip,-callchain,addr ? And if asked explicitely for the callchain, then it gets added in the same line? - Arnaldo > The current output is not very useful. You expect perf script to give > you one line per sample and only what you want. Callchain != IP. > > I think the following should happen: > - do not print callchain when asked for the IP. Create a callchain filter. > - print callchain on the same line, much like what is done for brstack > > It is not clear to me why callchain and ip were lumped together. > Any opinion on my proposal? > Thanks.