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From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] perf intel-pt: Add support for synthesizing callchains for regular events
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:50:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b8f28f5-968f-bfff-68af-ed0350a90765@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200416151443.GA2650@kernel.org>

On 16/04/20 6:14 pm, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 01:16:08PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
>> Currently, callchains can be synthesized only for synthesized events.
>> Support also synthesizing callchains for regular events.
> 
> This is super cool, I wonder if we shouldn't do it automatically or just
> adding a new type of callchains, i.e.:
> 
> 	perf record --call-graph pt uname
> 
> Should take care of all the details, i.e. do the extra steps below
> behind the scenes.
> 
> Possibly even find out that the workload specified was built with
> -fomit-frame-pointers, that the hardware has Intel PT and do all behind
> the scenes for:
> 
> 	perf record -g uname
> 
> Alternatively we could take some less seemingly far fetched approach and
> make this configurable via:
> 
> 	perf config call-graph.record-mode=pt
> 
> What do you think?

Adding a --call-graph option sounds reasonable, and config to define default
callgraph options.  But this was done at Andi Kleen's request, so he may
want to comment.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-17 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-01 10:15 [PATCH 00/16] perf intel-pt: Sampling improvements Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:15 ` [PATCH 01/16] perf auxtrace: Add ->evsel_is_auxtrace() callback Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:15 ` [PATCH 02/16] perf intel-pt: Implement " Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 03/16] perf intel-bts: " Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 04/16] perf arm-spe: " Adrian Hunter
2020-04-02  3:03   ` Leo Yan
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 05/16] perf cs-etm: " Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 17:11   ` Mathieu Poirier
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 06/16] perf s390-cpumsf: " Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 14:10   ` Thomas Richter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 07/16] perf auxtrace: For reporting purposes, un-group AUX area event Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 08/16] perf auxtrace: Add an option to synthesize callchains for regular events Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 09/16] perf thread-stack: Add thread_stack__sample_late() Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 10/16] perf tools: Add support for synthesized sample type Adrian Hunter
2020-04-16 14:54   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-16 14:57     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-16 15:01       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] perf evsel: Be consistent when looking which evsel PERF_SAMPLE_ bits are set tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] perf evsel: Add support for synthesized sample type tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 11/16] perf intel-pt: Add support for synthesizing callchains for regular events Adrian Hunter
2020-04-16 15:14   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-17 13:50     ` Adrian Hunter [this message]
2020-04-17 21:37       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-20  3:04         ` Andi Kleen
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 12/16] perf tools: Move and globalize perf_evsel__find_pmu() and perf_evsel__is_aux_event() Adrian Hunter
2020-04-18 11:50   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-18 12:04     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] perf evsel: " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 13/16] perf tools: Move leader-sampling configuration Adrian Hunter
2020-04-16 15:29   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] perf evlist: " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 14/16] perf tools: Rearrange perf_evsel__config_leader_sampling() Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] perf evsel: " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 15/16] perf tools: Allow multiple read formats Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] perf evlist: " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter
2020-04-01 10:16 ` [PATCH 16/16] perf tools: Add support for leader-sampling with AUX area events Adrian Hunter
2020-04-22 12:17   ` [tip: perf/core] " tip-bot2 for Adrian Hunter

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