RE: [PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-09-08 Thread Al Grant
> Ok, in perf the trace configuration would be part of 'session' > information, so the way the tracing was configured by userspace will > be > saved to the resulting trace file (perf.data) by the userspace. > We have that with Intel PT as well. For ETM, in principle, those aspects of the ETM confi

RE: [PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Williams
Alexander Shishkin wrote: > Mathieu Poirier writes: > >> On 4 September 2014 02:26, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 02:18:16PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote: Pawell, many thanks for looping me in. I am definitely not a perf-internal guru and as such won't be able

Re: [PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-09-08 Thread Alexander Shishkin
Mathieu Poirier writes: > On 4 September 2014 02:26, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 02:18:16PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote: >>> Pawell, many thanks for looping me in. >>> >>> I am definitely not a perf-internal guru and as such won't be able to >>> comment on the implementatio

Re: [PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-09-05 Thread Mathieu Poirier
On 4 September 2014 02:26, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 02:18:16PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote: >> Pawell, many thanks for looping me in. >> >> I am definitely not a perf-internal guru and as such won't be able to >> comment on the implementation. On the flip side it is easy f

Re: [PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-09-04 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 02:18:16PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote: > Pawell, many thanks for looping me in. > > I am definitely not a perf-internal guru and as such won't be able to > comment on the implementation. On the flip side it is easy for me to see > how the work on coresight done at Linaro

Re: [PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-09-01 Thread Pawel Moll
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 17:30 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 03:35:57PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > > This patchset adds support for Intel Processor Trace (PT) extension [1] of > > Intel Architecture that allows the capture of information about software > > execution fl

Re: [PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-09-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 03:35:57PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > Hi Peter and all, > > This patchset adds support for Intel Processor Trace (PT) extension [1] of > Intel Architecture that allows the capture of information about software > execution flow, to the perf kernel infrastructure. >

Re: [PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-09-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 09:21:23AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote: > On 08/20/2014 03:35 PM, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > > This patchset adds support for Intel Processor Trace (PT) extension [1] of > > Intel Architecture that allows the capture of information about software > > execution flow, to the p

Re: [PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-08-24 Thread Adrian Hunter
On 08/20/2014 03:35 PM, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > This patchset adds support for Intel Processor Trace (PT) extension [1] of > Intel Architecture that allows the capture of information about software > execution flow, to the perf kernel infrastructure. > Alex is away, so I would like to know if

[PATCH v4 00/22] perf: Add infrastructure and support for Intel PT

2014-08-20 Thread Alexander Shishkin
Hi Peter and all, This patchset adds support for Intel Processor Trace (PT) extension [1] of Intel Architecture that allows the capture of information about software execution flow, to the perf kernel infrastructure. The single most notable thing is that while PT outputs trace data in a compresse