Re: [PATCH v7 2/6] perf record: Get the first sample time and last sample time

[Jin, Yao]

On 1/5/2018 3:09 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 09:13:42PM +0800, Jin Yao escreveu:
> > 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.
>
> So, at this point I was expecting that that record would be present on
> the perf.data file:
>
> [acme@jouet perf]$ perf record --timestamp-boundary sleep 1
> Cannot read kernel map
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
> [acme@jouet perf]$ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | wc -l
> 7
> [acme@jouet perf]$ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE_TIME
> [acme@jouet perf]$
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> To clarify, this is with just the first two patches in this series
> applied.
>
> - Arnaldo
>   

Hi Arnaldo,

The timestamp boundary information is saved in perf file header.

So if we want to look at them, we need to add '--header' in perf report.

For example,

root@skl:/tmp# perf report -D --header | grep 'time of'
# time of first sample : 248333.706656
# time of last sample : 248357.215328

Thanks
Jin Yao