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tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer

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This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer,
so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be
tracked via "perf".

This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer;
its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-17 16:11:28 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent fd39e055c4
commit 6161352142
10 changed files with 113 additions and 388 deletions
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The power tracer collects detailed information about C-state and P-state
transitions, instead of just looking at the high-level "average"
information.
There is a helper script found in scrips/tracing/power.pl in the kernel
sources which can be used to parse this information and create a
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) picture from the trace data.
To use this tracer:
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
echo power > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
sleep 1
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | \
perl scripts/tracing/power.pl > out.sv