[PATCH 17/19] perf ftrace: add option -d/--delay to delay tracing

From: Changbin Du
Date: Sun May 10 2020 - 11:10:29 EST


This adds an option '-d/--delay' to allow us to start tracing some
times later after workload is launched.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
index 8d04e5afe2d3..d376b37c53fc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ struct perf_ftrace {
bool trace_children;
unsigned buffer_size_kb;
bool no_pager;
+ unsigned initial_delay;
};

struct filter_entry {
@@ -617,13 +618,23 @@ static int __cmd_ftrace(struct perf_ftrace *ftrace, int argc, const char **argv)
/* display column headers */
read_tracing_file_to_stdout("trace");

- if (write_tracing_file("tracing_on", "1") < 0) {
- pr_err("can't enable tracing\n");
- goto out_close_fd;
+ if (!ftrace->initial_delay) {
+ if (write_tracing_file("tracing_on", "1") < 0) {
+ pr_err("can't enable tracing\n");
+ goto out_close_fd;
+ }
}

perf_evlist__start_workload(ftrace->evlist);

+ if (ftrace->initial_delay) {
+ usleep(ftrace->initial_delay * 1000);
+ if (write_tracing_file("tracing_on", "1") < 0) {
+ pr_err("can't enable tracing\n");
+ goto out_close_fd;
+ }
+ }
+
while (!done) {
if (poll(&pollfd, 1, -1) < 0)
break;
@@ -747,6 +758,8 @@ int cmd_ftrace(int argc, const char **argv)
"size of per cpu buffer in kb"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('P', "no-pager", &ftrace.no_pager,
"Do not use pager"),
+ OPT_UINTEGER('d', "delay", &ftrace.initial_delay,
+ "Wait <n> ms before tracing"),
OPT_END()
};

--
2.25.1