Re: Tracing of power:power_start events doesn't work

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue May 04 2010 - 20:32:14 EST


On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 15:19 +0200, Ronny Tschüter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i use kernel version 2.6.33.2 (x86-64, Core 2 Duo) and the perf events
> to track frequency and c states of my cpu. But if i want to trace
> power:power_start events, it does not work. After typing
>
> echo "power:power_start" | sudo tee set_event
>
> on the console, the trace doesn't contain such events.
> power:power_frequency and power:power_end events are reported correctly
> by the system. I read in the mailing list that Robert Schoene had a
> similiar problem, but with power:power_end events. Is there a known bug
> regarding to trace_power_start methods in process.c?

Is this for perf or ftrace? I'm assuming you did this from the debugfs
tracing directory. The set_event file is for ftrace not perf.

-- Steve


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