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perf record: Add new -I option to sample interrupted machine state

Add -I/--intr-regs option to capture machine state registers at
interrupt.

Add the corresponding man page description

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411559322-16548-6-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Cc: cebbert.lkml@gmail.com
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Stephane Eranian 11 years ago
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      tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
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      tools/perf/builtin-record.c

+ 6 - 0
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt

@@ -214,6 +214,12 @@ if combined with -a or -C options.
 After starting the program, wait msecs before measuring. This is useful to
 filter out the startup phase of the program, which is often very different.
 
+-I::
+--intr-regs::
+Capture machine state (registers) at interrupt, i.e., on counter overflows for
+each sample. List of captured registers depends on the architecture. This option
+is off by default.
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-list[1]

+ 2 - 0
tools/perf/builtin-record.c

@@ -811,6 +811,8 @@ struct option __record_options[] = {
 		    "sample transaction flags (special events only)"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "per-thread", &record.opts.target.per_thread,
 		    "use per-thread mmaps"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('I', "intr-regs", &record.opts.sample_intr_regs,
+		    "Sample machine registers on interrupt"),
 	OPT_END()
 };