perf record: Record the first and last sample time in the header
In the default 'perf record' configuration, all samples are processed, to create the HEADER_BUILD_ID table. So it's very easy to get the first/last samples and save the time to perf file header via the function write_sample_time(). Later, at post processing time, perf report/script will fetch the time from perf file header. Committer testing: # perf record -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.099 MB perf.data (1101 samples) ] [root@jouet home]# perf report --header | grep "time of " # time of first sample : 22947.909226 # time of last sample : 22948.910704 # # perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE\( 0 22947909226101 0x20bb68 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa21b1af3 period: 1 addr: 0 0 22947909229928 0x20bb98 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa200d204 period: 1 addr: 0 <SNIP> 3 22948910397351 0x219360 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 28251/28251: 0xffffffffa22071d8 period: 169518 addr: 0 0 22948910652380 0x20f120 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa2856816 period: 198807 addr: 0 2 22948910704034 0x2172d0 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE(IP, 0x4001): 0/0: 0xffffffffa2856816 period: 88111 addr: 0 # Changelog: v7: Just update the patch description according to Arnaldo's suggestion. v6: Currently '--buildid-all' is not enabled at default. So the walking on all samples is the default operation. There is no big overhead to calculate the timestamp boundary in process_sample_event handler once we already go through all samples. So the timestamp boundary calculation is enabled by default when '--buildid-all' is not enabled. While if '--buildid-all' is enabled, we creates a new option "--timestamp-boundary" for user to decide if it enables the timestamp boundary calculation. v5: There is an issue that the sample walking can only work when '--buildid-all' is not enabled. So we need to let the walking be able to work even if '--buildid-all' is enabled and let the processing skips the dso hit marking for this case. At first, I want to provide a new option "--record-time-boundaries". While after consideration, I think a new option is not very necessary. v3: Remove the definitions of first_sample_time and last_sample_time from struct record and directly save them in perf_evlist. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512738826-2628-3-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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