linux/tools
Jin Yao 4802138d78 perf diff: Support --time filter option
To improve 'perf diff', implement a --time filter option to diff the
samples within given time window.

It supports time percent with multiple time ranges. The time string
format is 'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.

For example:

Select the second 10% time slice to diff:

  perf diff --time 10%/2

Select from 0% to 10% time slice to diff:

  perf diff --time 0%-10%

Select the first and the second 10% time slices to diff:

  perf diff --time 10%/1,10%/2

Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices to diff:

  perf diff --time 0%-10%,30%-40%

It also supports analysing samples within a given time window
<start>,<stop>.

Times have the format seconds.microseconds.

If 'start' is not given (i.e., time string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at
the beginning of the file.

If the stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis
goes to end of file.

Time string is 'a1.b1,c1.d1:a2.b2,c2.d2'. Use ':' to separate timestamps for
different perf.data files.

For example, we get the timestamp information from perf script.

  perf script -i perf.data.old

    mgen 13940 [000]  3946.361400: ...

  perf script -i perf.data

    mgen 13940 [000]  3971.150589 ...

  perf diff --time 3946.361400,:3971.150589,

It analyzes the perf.data.old from the timestamp 3946.361400 to the end of
perf.data.old and analyzes the perf.data from the timestamp 3971.150589 to the
end of perf.data.

 v4:
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 Update abstime_str_dup(), let it return error if strdup
 is failed, and update __cmd_diff() accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551791143-10334-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 18:03:23 -03:00
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bpf tools: bpftool: fix crash with un-owned prog arrays 2019-01-28 23:59:46 +01:00
build tools build feature sched_getcpu: Undef _GNU_SOURCE at the end 2019-02-14 15:39:21 -03:00
cgroup
crypto crypto: user - rename err_cnt parameter 2018-12-07 14:15:00 +08:00
firewire
firmware tools: Add 'firmware' category and add ihex2fw tool 2018-11-11 12:58:27 -08:00
gpio tools gpio: Allow overriding CFLAGS 2018-12-28 16:33:08 -03:00
hv Tools: hv: kvp: Fix a warning of buffer overflow with gcc 8.0.1 2018-11-11 12:58:27 -08:00
iio tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: make num_loops signed 2019-01-12 18:17:56 +00:00
include Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to pick up fixes 2019-02-28 08:27:17 +01:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: switch to python3 2018-11-27 12:53:44 +01:00
laptop
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lib tools lib traceevent: Fix buffer overflow in arg_eval 2019-02-28 16:06:47 -03:00
memory-model
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objtool objtool: Fix segfault in .cold detection with -ffunction-sections 2018-11-20 18:59:00 +01:00
pci
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perf perf diff: Support --time filter option 2019-03-06 18:03:23 -03:00
power perf/core improvements and fixes: 2019-01-03 14:05:16 +01:00
scripts
spi
testing selftests: fib_tests: sleep after changing carrier. again. 2019-02-23 18:34:20 -08:00
thermal/tmon tools thermal tmon: Use -O3 instead of -O1 if available 2019-01-04 12:54:49 -03:00
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virtio virtio: fix test build after uio.h change 2018-12-19 18:23:49 -05:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner: use page_owner_sort in the use example 2019-01-08 17:15:11 -08:00
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Makefile tools: Add 'firmware' category and add ihex2fw tool 2018-11-11 12:58:27 -08:00