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1perf-script(1)
2=============
3
4NAME
5----
6perf-script - Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output
7
8SYNOPSIS
9--------
10[verse]
11'perf script' [<options>]
12'perf script' [<options>] record <script> [<record-options>] <command>
13'perf script' [<options>] report <script> [script-args]
14'perf script' [<options>] <script> <required-script-args> [<record-options>] <command>
15'perf script' [<options>] <top-script> [script-args]
16
17DESCRIPTION
18-----------
19This command reads the input file and displays the trace recorded.
20
21There are several variants of perf script:
22
23 'perf script' to see a detailed trace of the workload that was
24 recorded.
25
26 You can also run a set of pre-canned scripts that aggregate and
27 summarize the raw trace data in various ways (the list of scripts is
28 available via 'perf script -l'). The following variants allow you to
29 record and run those scripts:
30
31 'perf script record <script> <command>' to record the events required
32 for 'perf script report'. <script> is the name displayed in the
33 output of 'perf script --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any
34 language extension. If <command> is not specified, the events are
35 recorded using the -a (system-wide) 'perf record' option.
36
37 'perf script report <script> [args]' to run and display the results
38 of <script>. <script> is the name displayed in the output of 'perf
39 script --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any language
40 extension. The perf.data output from a previous run of 'perf script
41 record <script>' is used and should be present for this command to
42 succeed. [args] refers to the (mainly optional) args expected by
43 the script.
44
45 'perf script <script> <required-script-args> <command>' to both
46 record the events required for <script> and to run the <script>
47 using 'live-mode' i.e. without writing anything to disk. <script>
48 is the name displayed in the output of 'perf script --list' i.e. the
49 actual script name minus any language extension. If <command> is
50 not specified, the events are recorded using the -a (system-wide)
51 'perf record' option. If <script> has any required args, they
52 should be specified before <command>. This mode doesn't allow for
53 optional script args to be specified; if optional script args are
54 desired, they can be specified using separate 'perf script record'
55 and 'perf script report' commands, with the stdout of the record step
56 piped to the stdin of the report script, using the '-o -' and '-i -'
57 options of the corresponding commands.
58
59 'perf script <top-script>' to both record the events required for
60 <top-script> and to run the <top-script> using 'live-mode'
61 i.e. without writing anything to disk. <top-script> is the name
62 displayed in the output of 'perf script --list' i.e. the actual
63 script name minus any language extension; a <top-script> is defined
64 as any script name ending with the string 'top'.
65
66 [<record-options>] can be passed to the record steps of 'perf script
67 record' and 'live-mode' variants; this isn't possible however for
68 <top-script> 'live-mode' or 'perf script report' variants.
69
70 See the 'SEE ALSO' section for links to language-specific
71 information on how to write and run your own trace scripts.
72
73OPTIONS
74-------
75<command>...::
76 Any command you can specify in a shell.
77
78-D::
79--dump-raw-trace=::
80 Display verbose dump of the trace data.
81
82--dump-unsorted-raw-trace=::
83 Same as --dump-raw-trace but not sorted in time order.
84
85-L::
86--Latency=::
87 Show latency attributes (irqs/preemption disabled, etc).
88
89-l::
90--list=::
91 Display a list of available trace scripts.
92
93-s ['lang']::
94--script=::
95 Process trace data with the given script ([lang]:script[.ext]).
96 If the string 'lang' is specified in place of a script name, a
97 list of supported languages will be displayed instead.
98
99-g::
100--gen-script=::
101 Generate perf-script.[ext] starter script for given language,
102 using current perf.data.
103
104--dlfilter=<file>::
105 Filter sample events using the given shared object file.
106 Refer linkperf:perf-dlfilter[1]
107
108--dlarg=<arg>::
109 Pass 'arg' as an argument to the dlfilter. --dlarg may be repeated
110 to add more arguments.
111
112--list-dlfilters::
113 Display a list of available dlfilters. Use with option -v (must come
114 before option --list-dlfilters) to show long descriptions.
115
116-a::
117 Force system-wide collection. Scripts run without a <command>
118 normally use -a by default, while scripts run with a <command>
119 normally don't - this option allows the latter to be run in
120 system-wide mode.
121
122-i::
123--input=::
124 Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
125
126-d::
127--debug-mode::
128 Do various checks like samples ordering and lost events.
129
130-F::
131--fields::
132 Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
133 comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff,
134 srcline, period, iregs, uregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output,
135 brstackinsn, brstackinsnlen, brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth,
136 phys_addr, metric, misc, srccode, ipc, data_page_size, code_page_size, ins_lat,
137 machine_pid, vcpu.
138 Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
139 to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
140 e.g., -F sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym and -F trace:time,cpu,trace
141
142 perf script -F <fields>
143
144 is equivalent to:
145
146 perf script -F trace:<fields> -F sw:<fields> -F hw:<fields>
147
148 i.e., the specified fields apply to all event types if the type string
149 is not given.
150
151 In addition to overriding fields, it is also possible to add or remove
152 fields from the defaults. For example
153
154 -F -cpu,+insn
155
156 removes the cpu field and adds the insn field. Adding/removing fields
157 cannot be mixed with normal overriding.
158
159 The arguments are processed in the order received. A later usage can
160 reset a prior request. e.g.:
161
162 -F trace: -F comm,tid,time,ip,sym
163
164 The first -F suppresses trace events (field list is ""), but then the
165 second invocation sets the fields to comm,tid,time,ip,sym. In this case a
166 warning is given to the user:
167
168 "Overriding previous field request for all events."
169
170 Alternatively, consider the order:
171
172 -F comm,tid,time,ip,sym -F trace:
173
174 The first -F sets the fields for all events and the second -F
175 suppresses trace events. The user is given a warning message about
176 the override, and the result of the above is that only S/W and H/W
177 events are displayed with the given fields.
178
179 It's possible tp add/remove fields only for specific event type:
180
181 -Fsw:-cpu,-period
182
183 removes cpu and period from software events.
184
185 For the 'wildcard' option if a user selected field is invalid for an
186 event type, a message is displayed to the user that the option is
187 ignored for that type. For example:
188
189 $ perf script -F comm,tid,trace
190 'trace' not valid for hardware events. Ignoring.
191 'trace' not valid for software events. Ignoring.
192
193 Alternatively, if the type is given an invalid field is specified it
194 is an error. For example:
195
196 perf script -v -F sw:comm,tid,trace
197 'trace' not valid for software events.
198
199 At this point usage is displayed, and perf-script exits.
200
201 The flags field is synthesized and may have a value when Instruction
202 Trace decoding. The flags are "bcrosyiABExghDt" which stand for branch,
203 call, return, conditional, system, asynchronous, interrupt,
204 transaction abort, trace begin, trace end, in transaction, VM-Entry,
205 VM-Exit, interrupt disabled and interrupt disable toggle respectively.
206 Known combinations of flags are printed more nicely e.g.
207 "call" for "bc", "return" for "br", "jcc" for "bo", "jmp" for "b",
208 "int" for "bci", "iret" for "bri", "syscall" for "bcs", "sysret" for "brs",
209 "async" for "by", "hw int" for "bcyi", "tx abrt" for "bA", "tr strt" for "bB",
210 "tr end" for "bE", "vmentry" for "bcg", "vmexit" for "bch".
211 However the "x", "D" and "t" flags will be displayed separately in those
212 cases e.g. "jcc (xD)" for a condition branch within a transaction
213 with interrupts disabled. Note, interrupts becoming disabled is "t",
214 whereas interrupts becoming enabled is "Dt".
215
216 The callindent field is synthesized and may have a value when
217 Instruction Trace decoding. For calls and returns, it will display the
218 name of the symbol indented with spaces to reflect the stack depth.
219
220 When doing instruction trace decoding insn and insnlen give the
221 instruction bytes and the instruction length of the current
222 instruction.
223
224 The synth field is used by synthesized events which may be created when
225 Instruction Trace decoding.
226
227 The ipc (instructions per cycle) field is synthesized and may have a value when
228 Instruction Trace decoding.
229
230 The machine_pid and vcpu fields are derived from data resulting from using
231 perf inject to insert a perf.data file recorded inside a virtual machine into
232 a perf.data file recorded on the host at the same time.
233
234 Finally, a user may not set fields to none for all event types.
235 i.e., -F "" is not allowed.
236
237 The brstack output includes branch related information with raw addresses using the
238 /v/v/v/v/cycles syntax in the following order:
239 FROM: branch source instruction
240 TO : branch target instruction
241 M/P/-: M=branch target mispredicted or branch direction was mispredicted, P=target predicted or direction predicted, -=not supported
242 X/- : X=branch inside a transactional region, -=not in transaction region or not supported
243 A/- : A=TSX abort entry, -=not aborted region or not supported
244 cycles
245
246 The brstacksym is identical to brstack, except that the FROM and TO addresses are printed in a symbolic form if possible.
247
248 When brstackinsn is specified the full assembler sequences of branch sequences for each sample
249 is printed. This is the full execution path leading to the sample. This is only supported when the
250 sample was recorded with perf record -b or -j any.
251
252 Use brstackinsnlen to print the brstackinsn lenght. For example, you
253 can’t know the next sequential instruction after an unconditional branch unless
254 you calculate that based on its length.
255
256 The brstackoff field will print an offset into a specific dso/binary.
257
258 With the metric option perf script can compute metrics for
259 sampling periods, similar to perf stat. This requires
260 specifying a group with multiple events defining metrics with the :S option
261 for perf record. perf will sample on the first event, and
262 print computed metrics for all the events in the group. Please note
263 that the metric computed is averaged over the whole sampling
264 period (since the last sample), not just for the sample point.
265
266 For sample events it's possible to display misc field with -F +misc option,
267 following letters are displayed for each bit:
268
269 PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL K
270 PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER U
271 PERF_RECORD_MISC_HYPERVISOR H
272 PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL G
273 PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER g
274 PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA* M
275 PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC E
276 PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT S
277 PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT Sp
278
279 $ perf script -F +misc ...
280 sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636582: 4590 cycles ...
281 sched-messaging 1407 U 28690.636600: 325620 cycles ...
282 sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636608: 19473 cycles ...
283 misc field ___________/
284
285-k::
286--vmlinux=<file>::
287 vmlinux pathname
288
289--kallsyms=<file>::
290 kallsyms pathname
291
292--symfs=<directory>::
293 Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
294
295-G::
296--hide-call-graph::
297 When printing symbols do not display call chain.
298
299--stop-bt::
300 Stop display of callgraph at these symbols
301
302-C::
303--cpu:: Only report samples for the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can
304 be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of
305 CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all
306 CPUs.
307
308-c::
309--comms=::
310 Only display events for these comms. CSV that understands
311 file://filename entries.
312
313--pid=::
314 Only show events for given process ID (comma separated list).
315
316--tid=::
317 Only show events for given thread ID (comma separated list).
318
319-I::
320--show-info::
321 Display extended information about the perf.data file. This adds
322 information which may be very large and thus may clutter the display.
323 It currently includes: cpu and numa topology of the host system.
324 It can only be used with the perf script report mode.
325
326--show-kernel-path::
327 Try to resolve the path of [kernel.kallsyms]
328
329--show-task-events
330 Display task related events (e.g. FORK, COMM, EXIT).
331
332--show-mmap-events
333 Display mmap related events (e.g. MMAP, MMAP2).
334
335--show-namespace-events
336 Display namespace events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES.
337
338--show-switch-events
339 Display context switch events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_SWITCH or
340 PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE.
341
342--show-lost-events
343 Display lost events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_LOST.
344
345--show-round-events
346 Display finished round events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND.
347
348--show-bpf-events
349 Display bpf events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL and PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT.
350
351--show-cgroup-events
352 Display cgroup events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_CGROUP.
353
354--show-text-poke-events
355 Display text poke events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE and
356 PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL.
357
358--demangle::
359 Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
360 disable with --no-demangle.
361
362--demangle-kernel::
363 Demangle kernel symbol names to human readable form (for C++ kernels).
364
365--header
366 Show perf.data header.
367
368--header-only
369 Show only perf.data header.
370
371--itrace::
372 Options for decoding instruction tracing data. The options are:
373
374include::itrace.txt[]
375
376 To disable decoding entirely, use --no-itrace.
377
378--full-source-path::
379 Show the full path for source files for srcline output.
380
381--max-stack::
382 Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
383 beyond the specified depth will be ignored. This is a trade-off
384 between information loss and faster processing especially for
385 workloads that can have a very long callchain stack.
386 Note that when using the --itrace option the synthesized callchain size
387 will override this value if the synthesized callchain size is bigger.
388
389 Default: 127
390
391--ns::
392 Use 9 decimal places when displaying time (i.e. show the nanoseconds)
393
394-f::
395--force::
396 Don't do ownership validation.
397
398--time::
399 Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
400 have the format seconds.nanoseconds. If start is not given (i.e. time
401 string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
402 stop time is not given (i.e. time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
403 to end of file. Multiple ranges can be separated by spaces, which
404 requires the argument to be quoted e.g. --time "1234.567,1234.789 1235,"
405
406 Also support time percent with multiple time ranges. Time string is
407 'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
408
409 For example:
410 Select the second 10% time slice:
411 perf script --time 10%/2
412
413 Select from 0% to 10% time slice:
414 perf script --time 0%-10%
415
416 Select the first and second 10% time slices:
417 perf script --time 10%/1,10%/2
418
419 Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices:
420 perf script --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
421
422--max-blocks::
423 Set the maximum number of program blocks to print with brstackinsn for
424 each sample.
425
426--reltime::
427 Print time stamps relative to trace start.
428
429--deltatime::
430 Print time stamps relative to previous event.
431
432--per-event-dump::
433 Create per event files with a "perf.data.EVENT.dump" name instead of
434 printing to stdout, useful, for instance, for generating flamegraphs.
435
436--inline::
437 If a callgraph address belongs to an inlined function, the inline stack
438 will be printed. Each entry has function name and file/line. Enabled by
439 default, disable with --no-inline.
440
441--insn-trace::
442 Show instruction stream for intel_pt traces. Combine with --xed to
443 show disassembly.
444
445--xed::
446 Run xed disassembler on output. Requires installing the xed disassembler.
447
448-S::
449--symbols=symbol[,symbol...]::
450 Only consider the listed symbols. Symbols are typically a name
451 but they may also be hexadecimal address.
452
453 The hexadecimal address may be the start address of a symbol or
454 any other address to filter the trace records
455
456 For example, to select the symbol noploop or the address 0x4007a0:
457 perf script --symbols=noploop,0x4007a0
458
459 Support filtering trace records by symbol name, start address of
460 symbol, any hexadecimal address and address range.
461
462 The comparison order is:
463
464 1. symbol name comparison
465 2. symbol start address comparison.
466 3. any hexadecimal address comparison.
467 4. address range comparison (see --addr-range).
468
469--addr-range::
470 Use with -S or --symbols to list traced records within address range.
471
472 For example, to list the traced records within the address range
473 [0x4007a0, 0x0x4007a9]:
474 perf script -S 0x4007a0 --addr-range 10
475
476--dsos=::
477 Only consider symbols in these DSOs.
478
479--call-trace::
480 Show call stream for intel_pt traces. The CPUs are interleaved, but
481 can be filtered with -C.
482
483--call-ret-trace::
484 Show call and return stream for intel_pt traces.
485
486--graph-function::
487 For itrace only show specified functions and their callees for
488 itrace. Multiple functions can be separated by comma.
489
490--switch-on EVENT_NAME::
491 Only consider events after this event is found.
492
493--switch-off EVENT_NAME::
494 Stop considering events after this event is found.
495
496--show-on-off-events::
497 Show the --switch-on/off events too.
498
499--stitch-lbr::
500 Show callgraph with stitched LBRs, which may have more complete
501 callgraph. The perf.data file must have been obtained using
502 perf record --call-graph lbr.
503 Disabled by default. In common cases with call stack overflows,
504 it can recreate better call stacks than the default lbr call stack
505 output. But this approach is not full proof. There can be cases
506 where it creates incorrect call stacks from incorrect matches.
507 The known limitations include exception handing such as
508 setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not match.
509
510:GMEXAMPLECMD: script
511:GMEXAMPLESUBCMD:
512include::guest-files.txt[]
513
514SEE ALSO
515--------
516linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-script-perl[1],
517linkperf:perf-script-python[1], linkperf:perf-intel-pt[1],
518linkperf:perf-dlfilter[1]
1perf-script(1)
2=============
3
4NAME
5----
6perf-script - Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output
7
8SYNOPSIS
9--------
10[verse]
11'perf script' [<options>]
12'perf script' [<options>] record <script> [<record-options>] <command>
13'perf script' [<options>] report <script> [script-args]
14'perf script' [<options>] <script> <required-script-args> [<record-options>] <command>
15'perf script' [<options>] <top-script> [script-args]
16
17DESCRIPTION
18-----------
19This command reads the input file and displays the trace recorded.
20
21There are several variants of perf script:
22
23 'perf script' to see a detailed trace of the workload that was
24 recorded.
25
26 You can also run a set of pre-canned scripts that aggregate and
27 summarize the raw trace data in various ways (the list of scripts is
28 available via 'perf script -l'). The following variants allow you to
29 record and run those scripts:
30
31 'perf script record <script> <command>' to record the events required
32 for 'perf script report'. <script> is the name displayed in the
33 output of 'perf script --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any
34 language extension. If <command> is not specified, the events are
35 recorded using the -a (system-wide) 'perf record' option.
36
37 'perf script report <script> [args]' to run and display the results
38 of <script>. <script> is the name displayed in the output of 'perf
39 script --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any language
40 extension. The perf.data output from a previous run of 'perf script
41 record <script>' is used and should be present for this command to
42 succeed. [args] refers to the (mainly optional) args expected by
43 the script.
44
45 'perf script <script> <required-script-args> <command>' to both
46 record the events required for <script> and to run the <script>
47 using 'live-mode' i.e. without writing anything to disk. <script>
48 is the name displayed in the output of 'perf script --list' i.e. the
49 actual script name minus any language extension. If <command> is
50 not specified, the events are recorded using the -a (system-wide)
51 'perf record' option. If <script> has any required args, they
52 should be specified before <command>. This mode doesn't allow for
53 optional script args to be specified; if optional script args are
54 desired, they can be specified using separate 'perf script record'
55 and 'perf script report' commands, with the stdout of the record step
56 piped to the stdin of the report script, using the '-o -' and '-i -'
57 options of the corresponding commands.
58
59 'perf script <top-script>' to both record the events required for
60 <top-script> and to run the <top-script> using 'live-mode'
61 i.e. without writing anything to disk. <top-script> is the name
62 displayed in the output of 'perf script --list' i.e. the actual
63 script name minus any language extension; a <top-script> is defined
64 as any script name ending with the string 'top'.
65
66 [<record-options>] can be passed to the record steps of 'perf script
67 record' and 'live-mode' variants; this isn't possible however for
68 <top-script> 'live-mode' or 'perf script report' variants.
69
70 See the 'SEE ALSO' section for links to language-specific
71 information on how to write and run your own trace scripts.
72
73OPTIONS
74-------
75<command>...::
76 Any command you can specify in a shell.
77
78-D::
79--dump-raw-trace=::
80 Display verbose dump of the trace data.
81
82-L::
83--Latency=::
84 Show latency attributes (irqs/preemption disabled, etc).
85
86-l::
87--list=::
88 Display a list of available trace scripts.
89
90-s ['lang']::
91--script=::
92 Process trace data with the given script ([lang]:script[.ext]).
93 If the string 'lang' is specified in place of a script name, a
94 list of supported languages will be displayed instead.
95
96-g::
97--gen-script=::
98 Generate perf-script.[ext] starter script for given language,
99 using current perf.data.
100
101--dlfilter=<file>::
102 Filter sample events using the given shared object file.
103 Refer linkperf:perf-dlfilter[1]
104
105--dlarg=<arg>::
106 Pass 'arg' as an argument to the dlfilter. --dlarg may be repeated
107 to add more arguments.
108
109--list-dlfilters=::
110 Display a list of available dlfilters. Use with option -v (must come
111 before option --list-dlfilters) to show long descriptions.
112
113-a::
114 Force system-wide collection. Scripts run without a <command>
115 normally use -a by default, while scripts run with a <command>
116 normally don't - this option allows the latter to be run in
117 system-wide mode.
118
119-i::
120--input=::
121 Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
122
123-d::
124--debug-mode::
125 Do various checks like samples ordering and lost events.
126
127-F::
128--fields::
129 Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
130 comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff,
131 srcline, period, iregs, uregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output,
132 brstackinsn, brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth, phys_addr,
133 metric, misc, srccode, ipc, data_page_size, code_page_size.
134 Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
135 to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
136 e.g., -F sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym and -F trace:time,cpu,trace
137
138 perf script -F <fields>
139
140 is equivalent to:
141
142 perf script -F trace:<fields> -F sw:<fields> -F hw:<fields>
143
144 i.e., the specified fields apply to all event types if the type string
145 is not given.
146
147 In addition to overriding fields, it is also possible to add or remove
148 fields from the defaults. For example
149
150 -F -cpu,+insn
151
152 removes the cpu field and adds the insn field. Adding/removing fields
153 cannot be mixed with normal overriding.
154
155 The arguments are processed in the order received. A later usage can
156 reset a prior request. e.g.:
157
158 -F trace: -F comm,tid,time,ip,sym
159
160 The first -F suppresses trace events (field list is ""), but then the
161 second invocation sets the fields to comm,tid,time,ip,sym. In this case a
162 warning is given to the user:
163
164 "Overriding previous field request for all events."
165
166 Alternatively, consider the order:
167
168 -F comm,tid,time,ip,sym -F trace:
169
170 The first -F sets the fields for all events and the second -F
171 suppresses trace events. The user is given a warning message about
172 the override, and the result of the above is that only S/W and H/W
173 events are displayed with the given fields.
174
175 It's possible tp add/remove fields only for specific event type:
176
177 -Fsw:-cpu,-period
178
179 removes cpu and period from software events.
180
181 For the 'wildcard' option if a user selected field is invalid for an
182 event type, a message is displayed to the user that the option is
183 ignored for that type. For example:
184
185 $ perf script -F comm,tid,trace
186 'trace' not valid for hardware events. Ignoring.
187 'trace' not valid for software events. Ignoring.
188
189 Alternatively, if the type is given an invalid field is specified it
190 is an error. For example:
191
192 perf script -v -F sw:comm,tid,trace
193 'trace' not valid for software events.
194
195 At this point usage is displayed, and perf-script exits.
196
197 The flags field is synthesized and may have a value when Instruction
198 Trace decoding. The flags are "bcrosyiABExgh" which stand for branch,
199 call, return, conditional, system, asynchronous, interrupt,
200 transaction abort, trace begin, trace end, in transaction, VM-Entry, and VM-Exit
201 respectively. Known combinations of flags are printed more nicely e.g.
202 "call" for "bc", "return" for "br", "jcc" for "bo", "jmp" for "b",
203 "int" for "bci", "iret" for "bri", "syscall" for "bcs", "sysret" for "brs",
204 "async" for "by", "hw int" for "bcyi", "tx abrt" for "bA", "tr strt" for "bB",
205 "tr end" for "bE", "vmentry" for "bcg", "vmexit" for "bch".
206 However the "x" flag will be displayed separately in those
207 cases e.g. "jcc (x)" for a condition branch within a transaction.
208
209 The callindent field is synthesized and may have a value when
210 Instruction Trace decoding. For calls and returns, it will display the
211 name of the symbol indented with spaces to reflect the stack depth.
212
213 When doing instruction trace decoding insn and insnlen give the
214 instruction bytes and the instruction length of the current
215 instruction.
216
217 The synth field is used by synthesized events which may be created when
218 Instruction Trace decoding.
219
220 The ipc (instructions per cycle) field is synthesized and may have a value when
221 Instruction Trace decoding.
222
223 Finally, a user may not set fields to none for all event types.
224 i.e., -F "" is not allowed.
225
226 The brstack output includes branch related information with raw addresses using the
227 /v/v/v/v/cycles syntax in the following order:
228 FROM: branch source instruction
229 TO : branch target instruction
230 M/P/-: M=branch target mispredicted or branch direction was mispredicted, P=target predicted or direction predicted, -=not supported
231 X/- : X=branch inside a transactional region, -=not in transaction region or not supported
232 A/- : A=TSX abort entry, -=not aborted region or not supported
233 cycles
234
235 The brstacksym is identical to brstack, except that the FROM and TO addresses are printed in a symbolic form if possible.
236
237 When brstackinsn is specified the full assembler sequences of branch sequences for each sample
238 is printed. This is the full execution path leading to the sample. This is only supported when the
239 sample was recorded with perf record -b or -j any.
240
241 The brstackoff field will print an offset into a specific dso/binary.
242
243 With the metric option perf script can compute metrics for
244 sampling periods, similar to perf stat. This requires
245 specifying a group with multiple events defining metrics with the :S option
246 for perf record. perf will sample on the first event, and
247 print computed metrics for all the events in the group. Please note
248 that the metric computed is averaged over the whole sampling
249 period (since the last sample), not just for the sample point.
250
251 For sample events it's possible to display misc field with -F +misc option,
252 following letters are displayed for each bit:
253
254 PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL K
255 PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER U
256 PERF_RECORD_MISC_HYPERVISOR H
257 PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL G
258 PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER g
259 PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA* M
260 PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC E
261 PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT S
262 PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT Sp
263
264 $ perf script -F +misc ...
265 sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636582: 4590 cycles ...
266 sched-messaging 1407 U 28690.636600: 325620 cycles ...
267 sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636608: 19473 cycles ...
268 misc field ___________/
269
270-k::
271--vmlinux=<file>::
272 vmlinux pathname
273
274--kallsyms=<file>::
275 kallsyms pathname
276
277--symfs=<directory>::
278 Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
279
280-G::
281--hide-call-graph::
282 When printing symbols do not display call chain.
283
284--stop-bt::
285 Stop display of callgraph at these symbols
286
287-C::
288--cpu:: Only report samples for the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can
289 be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of
290 CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all
291 CPUs.
292
293-c::
294--comms=::
295 Only display events for these comms. CSV that understands
296 file://filename entries.
297
298--pid=::
299 Only show events for given process ID (comma separated list).
300
301--tid=::
302 Only show events for given thread ID (comma separated list).
303
304-I::
305--show-info::
306 Display extended information about the perf.data file. This adds
307 information which may be very large and thus may clutter the display.
308 It currently includes: cpu and numa topology of the host system.
309 It can only be used with the perf script report mode.
310
311--show-kernel-path::
312 Try to resolve the path of [kernel.kallsyms]
313
314--show-task-events
315 Display task related events (e.g. FORK, COMM, EXIT).
316
317--show-mmap-events
318 Display mmap related events (e.g. MMAP, MMAP2).
319
320--show-namespace-events
321 Display namespace events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES.
322
323--show-switch-events
324 Display context switch events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_SWITCH or
325 PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE.
326
327--show-lost-events
328 Display lost events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_LOST.
329
330--show-round-events
331 Display finished round events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND.
332
333--show-bpf-events
334 Display bpf events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL and PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT.
335
336--show-cgroup-events
337 Display cgroup events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_CGROUP.
338
339--show-text-poke-events
340 Display text poke events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE and
341 PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL.
342
343--demangle::
344 Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
345 disable with --no-demangle.
346
347--demangle-kernel::
348 Demangle kernel symbol names to human readable form (for C++ kernels).
349
350--header
351 Show perf.data header.
352
353--header-only
354 Show only perf.data header.
355
356--itrace::
357 Options for decoding instruction tracing data. The options are:
358
359include::itrace.txt[]
360
361 To disable decoding entirely, use --no-itrace.
362
363--full-source-path::
364 Show the full path for source files for srcline output.
365
366--max-stack::
367 Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
368 beyond the specified depth will be ignored. This is a trade-off
369 between information loss and faster processing especially for
370 workloads that can have a very long callchain stack.
371 Note that when using the --itrace option the synthesized callchain size
372 will override this value if the synthesized callchain size is bigger.
373
374 Default: 127
375
376--ns::
377 Use 9 decimal places when displaying time (i.e. show the nanoseconds)
378
379-f::
380--force::
381 Don't do ownership validation.
382
383--time::
384 Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
385 have the format seconds.nanoseconds. If start is not given (i.e. time
386 string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
387 stop time is not given (i.e. time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
388 to end of file. Multiple ranges can be separated by spaces, which
389 requires the argument to be quoted e.g. --time "1234.567,1234.789 1235,"
390
391 Also support time percent with multiple time ranges. Time string is
392 'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
393
394 For example:
395 Select the second 10% time slice:
396 perf script --time 10%/2
397
398 Select from 0% to 10% time slice:
399 perf script --time 0%-10%
400
401 Select the first and second 10% time slices:
402 perf script --time 10%/1,10%/2
403
404 Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices:
405 perf script --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
406
407--max-blocks::
408 Set the maximum number of program blocks to print with brstackinsn for
409 each sample.
410
411--reltime::
412 Print time stamps relative to trace start.
413
414--deltatime::
415 Print time stamps relative to previous event.
416
417--per-event-dump::
418 Create per event files with a "perf.data.EVENT.dump" name instead of
419 printing to stdout, useful, for instance, for generating flamegraphs.
420
421--inline::
422 If a callgraph address belongs to an inlined function, the inline stack
423 will be printed. Each entry has function name and file/line. Enabled by
424 default, disable with --no-inline.
425
426--insn-trace::
427 Show instruction stream for intel_pt traces. Combine with --xed to
428 show disassembly.
429
430--xed::
431 Run xed disassembler on output. Requires installing the xed disassembler.
432
433-S::
434--symbols=symbol[,symbol...]::
435 Only consider the listed symbols. Symbols are typically a name
436 but they may also be hexadecimal address.
437
438 The hexadecimal address may be the start address of a symbol or
439 any other address to filter the trace records
440
441 For example, to select the symbol noploop or the address 0x4007a0:
442 perf script --symbols=noploop,0x4007a0
443
444 Support filtering trace records by symbol name, start address of
445 symbol, any hexadecimal address and address range.
446
447 The comparison order is:
448
449 1. symbol name comparison
450 2. symbol start address comparison.
451 3. any hexadecimal address comparison.
452 4. address range comparison (see --addr-range).
453
454--addr-range::
455 Use with -S or --symbols to list traced records within address range.
456
457 For example, to list the traced records within the address range
458 [0x4007a0, 0x0x4007a9]:
459 perf script -S 0x4007a0 --addr-range 10
460
461--dsos=::
462 Only consider symbols in these DSOs.
463
464--call-trace::
465 Show call stream for intel_pt traces. The CPUs are interleaved, but
466 can be filtered with -C.
467
468--call-ret-trace::
469 Show call and return stream for intel_pt traces.
470
471--graph-function::
472 For itrace only show specified functions and their callees for
473 itrace. Multiple functions can be separated by comma.
474
475--switch-on EVENT_NAME::
476 Only consider events after this event is found.
477
478--switch-off EVENT_NAME::
479 Stop considering events after this event is found.
480
481--show-on-off-events::
482 Show the --switch-on/off events too.
483
484--stitch-lbr::
485 Show callgraph with stitched LBRs, which may have more complete
486 callgraph. The perf.data file must have been obtained using
487 perf record --call-graph lbr.
488 Disabled by default. In common cases with call stack overflows,
489 it can recreate better call stacks than the default lbr call stack
490 output. But this approach is not full proof. There can be cases
491 where it creates incorrect call stacks from incorrect matches.
492 The known limitations include exception handing such as
493 setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not match.
494
495SEE ALSO
496--------
497linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-script-perl[1],
498linkperf:perf-script-python[1], linkperf:perf-intel-pt[1],
499linkperf:perf-dlfilter[1]