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TRACE-CMD-REPORT(1)                                      TRACE-CMD-REPORT(1)

NAME         top

       trace-cmd-report - show in ASCII a trace created by trace-cmd record

SYNOPSIS         top

       trace-cmd report [OPTIONS] [input-file]

DESCRIPTION         top

       The trace-cmd(1) report command will output a human readable report
       of a trace created by trace-cmd record.

OPTIONS         top

       -i input-file
           By default, trace-cmd report will read the file trace.dat. But
           the -i option open up the given input-file instead. Note, the
           input file may also be specified as the last item on the command
           line.
       -e
           This outputs the endianess of the file. trace-cmd report is smart
           enough to be able to read big endian files on little endian
           machines, and vise versa.
       -f
           This outputs the list of functions that have been recorded in the
           file.
       -P
           This outputs the list of "trace_printk()" data. The raw trace
           data points to static pointers in the kernel. This must be stored
           in the trace.dat file.
       -E
           This lists the possible events in the file (but this list is not
           necessarily the list of events in the file).
       --events
           This will list the event formats that are stored in the trace.dat
           file.
       --event regex
           This will print events that match the given regex. If a colon is
           specified, then the characters before the colon will be used to
           match the system and the characters after the colon will match
           the event.
               trace-cmd report --event sys:read
               The above will only match events where the system name contains "sys"
               and the event name contains "read".
               trace-cmd report --event read
               The above will match all events that contain "read" in its name. Also it
               may list all events of a system that contains "read" as well.
       --check-events
           This will parse the event format strings that are stored in the
           trace.dat file and return whether the formats can be parsed
           correctly. It will load plugins unless -N is specified.
       -t
           Print the full timestamp. The timestamps in the data file are
           usually recorded to the nanosecond. But the default display of
           the timestamp is only to the microsecond. To see the full
           timestamp, add the -t option.
       -F filter
           Add a filter to limit what events are displayed. The format of
           the filter is:
               <events> ':' <filter>
               <events> = SYSTEM'/'EVENT  | SYSTEM | EVENT | <events> ',' <events>
               <filter> = EVENT_FIELD <op> <value> | <filter> '&&' <filter> |
                          <filter> '||' <filter> | '(' <filter> ')' | '!' <filter>
               <op> = '==' | '!=' | '>=' | '<=' | '>' | '<' | '&' | '|' | '^' |
                      '+' | '-' | '*' | '/' | '%'
               <value> = NUM | STRING | EVENT_FIELD
           SYSTEM is the name of the system to filter on. If the EVENT is left out,
           then it applies to all events under the SYSTEM. If only one string is used
           without the '/' to deliminate between SYSTEM and EVENT, then the filter
           will be applied to all systems and events that match the given string.
           Whitespace is ignored, such that "sched:next_pid==123" is equivalent to
           "sched : next_pid == 123".
           STRING is defined with single or double quotes (single quote must end with
           single quote, and double with double). Whitespace within quotes are not
           ignored.
           The representation of a SYSTEM or EVENT may also be a regular expression
           as defined by 'regcomp(3)'.
           The EVENT_FIELD is the name of the field of an event that is being
           filtered. If the event does not contain the EVENT_FIELD, that part of the
           equation will be considered false.
               -F 'sched : bogus == 1 || common_pid == 2'
           The "bogus == 1" will always evaluate to FALSE because no event has a
           field called "bogus", but the "common_pid == 2" will still be evaluated
           since all events have the field "common_pid". Any "sched" event that was
           traced by the process with the PID of 2 will be shown.
           Note, the EVENT_FIELD is the field name as shown by an events format
           (as displayed with *--events*), and not what is found in the output.
           If the output shows "ID:foo" but the field that "foo" belongs to was
           called "name" in the event format, then "name" must be used in the filter.
           The same is true about values. If the value that is displayed is converted
           by to a string symbol, the filter checks the original value and not the
           value displayed. For example, to filter on all tasks that were in the
           running state at a context switch:
               -F 'sched/sched_switch : prev_state==0'
           Although the output displays 'R', having 'prev_stat=="R"' will not work.
           Note: You can also specify 'COMM' as an EVENT_FIELD. This will use the
           task name (or comm) of the record to compare. For example, to filter out
           all of the "trace-cmd" tasks:
               -F '.*:COMM != "trace-cmd"'
       -I
           Do not print events where the HARDIRQ latency flag is set. This
           will filter out most events that are from interrupt context.
           Note, it may not filter out function traced functions that are in
           interrupt context but were called before the kernel "in
           interrupt" flag was set.
       -S
           Do not print events where the SOFTIRQ latency flag is set. This
           will filter out most events that are from soft interrupt context.
       -v
           This causes the following filters of -F to filter out the
           matching events.
               -v -F 'sched/sched_switch : prev_state == 0'
           Will not display any sched_switch events that have a prev_state of 0.
           Removing the *-v* will only print out those events.
       -T
           Test the filters of -F. After processing a filter string, the
           resulting filter will be displayed for each event. This is useful
           for using a filter for more than one event where a field may not
           exist in all events. Also it can be used to make sure there are
           no misspelled event field names, as they will simply be ignored.
           -T is ignored if -F is not specified.
       -V
           Show the plugins that are loaded.
       -L
           This will not load system wide plugins. It loads "local only".
           That is what it finds in the ~/.trace-cmd/plugins directory.
       -N
           This will not load any plugins.
       -n event-re
           This will cause all events that match the option to ignore any
           registered handler (by the plugins) to print the event. The
           normal event will be printed instead. The event-re is a regular
           expression as defined by regcomp(3).
       --profile
           With the --profile option, "trace-cmd report" will process all
           the events first, and then output a format showing where tasks
           have spent their time in the kernel, as well as where they are
           blocked the most, and where wake up latencies are.
               See trace-cmd-profile(1) for more details and examples.
       -G
           Set interrupt (soft and hard) events as global (associated to CPU
           instead of tasks). Only works for --profile.
       -H event-hooks
           Add custom event matching to connect any two events together.
               See trace-cmd-profile(1) for format.
       -R
           This will show the events in "raw" format. That is, it will
           ignore the event’s print formatting and just print the contents
           of each field.
       -r event-re
           This will cause all events that match the option to print its raw
           fields. The event-re is a regular expression as defined by
           regcomp(3).
       -l
           This adds a "latency output" format. Information about interrupts
           being disabled, soft irq being disabled, the "need_resched" flag
           being set, preempt count, and big kernel lock are all being
           recorded with every event. But the default display does not show
           this information. This option will set display this information
           with 6 characters. When one of the fields is zero or N/A a '.\'
           is shown.
                 <idle>-0       0d.h1. 106467.859747: function:             ktime_get <-- tick_check_idle
           The 0d.h1. denotes this information. The first character is never a '.'
           and represents what CPU the trace was recorded on (CPU 0). The 'd' denotes
           that interrupts were disabled. The 'h' means that this was called inside
           an interrupt handler. The '1' is the preemption disabled (preempt_count)
           was set to one.  The two '.'s are "need_resched" flag and kernel lock
           counter.  If the "need_resched" flag is set, then that character would be a
           'N'.
       -w
           If both the sched_switch and sched_wakeup events are enabled,
           then this option will report the latency between the time the
           task was first woken, and the time it was scheduled in.
       -q
           Quiet non critical warnings.
       -O
           Pass options to the trace-cmd plugins that are loaded.
               -O plugin:var=value
               The 'plugin:' and '=value' are optional. Value may be left off for options
               that are boolean. If the 'plugin:' is left off, then any variable that matches
               in all plugins will be set.
               Example:  -O fgraph:tailprint
       --stat
           If the trace.dat file recorded the final stats (outputed at the
           end of record) the --stat option can be used to retrieve them.
       --uname
           If the trace.dat file recorded uname during the run, this will
           retrieve that information.
       --ts-offset offset
           Add (or subtract if negative) an offset for all timestamps of the
           previous data file specified with -i. This is useful to merge
           sort multiple trace.dat files where the difference in the
           timestamp is known. For example if a trace is done on a virtual
           guest, and another trace is done on the host. If the host
           timestamp is 1000 units ahead of the guest, the following can be
           done:
               trace-cmd report -i host.dat --ts-offset -1000 -i guest.dat
               This will subtract 1000 timestamp units from all the host events as it merges
               with the guest.dat events. Note, the units is for the raw units recorded in
               the trace. If the units are nanoseconds, the addition (or subtraction) from
               the offset will be nanoseconds even if the displayed units are microseconds.
       --ts2secs HZ
           Convert the current clock source into a second (nanosecond
           resolution) output. When using clocks like x86-tsc, if the
           frequency is known, by passing in the clock frequency, this will
           convert the time to seconds.
               This option affects any trace.dat file given with *-i* proceeding it.
               If this option comes before any *-i* option, then that value becomes
               the default conversion for all other trace.dat files. If another
               --ts2secs option appears after a *-i* trace.dat file, than that option
               will override the default value.
               Example: On a 3.4 GHz machine
               trace-cmd record -p function -C x86-tsc
               trace-cmd report --ts2ns 3400000000
               The report will convert the cycles timestamps into a readable second
               display. The default display resolution is microseconds, unless *-t*
               is used.
               The value of --ts-offset must still be in the raw timestamp units, even
               with this option. The offset will be converted as well.
       --ts-diff
           Show the time differences between events. The difference will
           appear in parenthesis just after the timestamp.

EXAMPLES         top

       Using a trace.dat file that was created with:
               # trace-cmd record -p function -e all sleep 5
       The default report shows:
            # trace-cmd report
                  trace-cmd-16129 [002] 158126.498411: function: __mutex_unlock_slowpath <-- mutex_unlock
                  trace-cmd-16131 [000] 158126.498411: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=811223c5 ptr=0xffff88003ecf2b40 bytes_req=272 bytes_alloc=320 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL|GFP_ZERO
                  trace-cmd-16130 [003] 158126.498411: function:             do_splice_to <-- sys_splice
                      sleep-16133 [001] 158126.498412: function: inotify_inode_queue_event <-- vfs_write
                  trace-cmd-16129 [002] 158126.498420: lock_release: 0xffff88003f1fa4f8 &sb->s_type->i_mutex_key
                  trace-cmd-16131 [000] 158126.498421: function: security_file_alloc <-- get_empty_filp
                      sleep-16133 [001] 158126.498422: function: __fsnotify_parent <-- vfs_write
                  trace-cmd-16130 [003] 158126.498422: function: rw_verify_area <-- do_splice_to
                  trace-cmd-16131 [000] 158126.498424: function: cap_file_alloc_security <-- security_file_alloc
                  trace-cmd-16129 [002] 158126.498425: function: syscall_trace_leave <-- int_check_syscall_exit_work
                      sleep-16133 [001] 158126.498426: function: inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event <-- vfs_write
                  trace-cmd-16130 [003] 158126.498426: function: security_file_permission <-- rw_verify_area
                  trace-cmd-16129 [002] 158126.498428: function: audit_syscall_exit <-- syscall_trace_leave
           [...]
       To see everything but the function traces:
            # trace-cmd report -v -F 'function'
                  trace-cmd-16131 [000] 158126.498411: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=811223c5 ptr=0xffff88003ecf2b40 bytes_req=272 bytes_alloc=320 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL|GFP_ZERO
                  trace-cmd-16129 [002] 158126.498420: lock_release: 0xffff88003f1fa4f8 &sb->s_type->i_mutex_key
                  trace-cmd-16130 [003] 158126.498436: lock_acquire: 0xffffffff8166bf78 read all_cpu_access_lock
                  trace-cmd-16131 [000] 158126.498438: lock_acquire: 0xffff88003df5b520 read &fs->lock
                  trace-cmd-16129 [002] 158126.498446: kfree: call_site=810a7abb ptr=0x0
                  trace-cmd-16130 [003] 158126.498448: lock_acquire: 0xffff880002250a80 &per_cpu(cpu_access_lock, cpu)
                  trace-cmd-16129 [002] 158126.498450: sys_exit_splice:      0xfffffff5
                  trace-cmd-16131 [000] 158126.498454: lock_release: 0xffff88003df5b520 &fs->lock
                      sleep-16133 [001] 158126.498456: kfree: call_site=810a7abb ptr=0x0
                      sleep-16133 [001] 158126.498460: sys_exit_write:       0x1
                  trace-cmd-16130 [003] 158126.498462: kmalloc: call_site=810bf95b ptr=0xffff88003dedc040 bytes_req=24 bytes_alloc=32 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL|GFP_ZERO
       To see only the kmalloc calls that were greater than 1000 bytes:
            #trace-cmd report -F 'kmalloc: bytes_req > 1000'
                     <idle>-0     [000] 158128.126641: kmalloc: call_site=81330635 ptr=0xffff88003c2fd000 bytes_req=2096 bytes_alloc=4096 gfp_flags=GFP_ATOMIC
       To see wakeups and sched switches that left the previous task in the
       running state:
            # trace-cmd report -F 'sched: prev_state == 0 || (success == 1)'
                  trace-cmd-16132 [002] 158126.499951: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16129 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=002
                  trace-cmd-16132 [002] 158126.500401: sched_switch: prev_comm=trace-cmd prev_pid=16132 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=trace-cmd next_pid=16129 next_prio=120
                     <idle>-0     [003] 158126.500585: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16130 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=003
                     <idle>-0     [003] 158126.501241: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=trace-cmd next_pid=16130 next_prio=120
                  trace-cmd-16132 [000] 158126.502475: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16131 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=000
                  trace-cmd-16131 [002] 158126.506516: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16129 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=002
                     <idle>-0     [003] 158126.550110: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=trace-cmd next_pid=16130 next_prio=120
                  trace-cmd-16131 [003] 158126.570243: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16129 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=003
                  trace-cmd-16130 [002] 158126.618202: sched_switch: prev_comm=trace-cmd prev_pid=16130 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=yum-updatesd next_pid=3088 next_prio=1 20
                  trace-cmd-16129 [003] 158126.622379: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16131 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=003
                  trace-cmd-16129 [000] 158126.649287: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16131 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=000
       The above needs a little explanation. The filter specifies the
       "sched" subsystem, which includes both sched_switch and sched_wakeup
       events. Any event that does not have the format field "prev_state" or
       "success", will evaluate those expressions as FALSE, and will not
       produce a match. Using "||" will have the "prev_state" test happen
       for the "sched_switch" event and the "success" test happen for the
       "sched_wakeup" event.
             # trace-cmd report -w -F 'sched_switch, sched_wakeup.*'
           [...]
                  trace-cmd-16130 [003] 158131.580616: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16131 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=003
                  trace-cmd-16129 [000] 158131.581502: sched_switch: prev_comm=trace-cmd prev_pid=16129 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=trace-cmd next_pid=16131 next_prio=120 Latency: 885.901 usecs
                  trace-cmd-16131 [000] 158131.582414: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16129 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=000
                  trace-cmd-16132 [001] 158131.583219: sched_switch: prev_comm=trace-cmd prev_pid=16132 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=trace-cmd next_pid=16129 next_prio=120 Latency: 804.809 usecs
                      sleep-16133 [002] 158131.584121: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16120 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=002
                  trace-cmd-16129 [001] 158131.584128: sched_wakeup: comm=trace-cmd pid=16132 prio=120 success=1 target_cpu=001
                      sleep-16133 [002] 158131.584275: sched_switch: prev_comm=sleep prev_pid=16133 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=trace-cmd next_pid=16120 next_prio=120 Latency: 153.915 usecs
                  trace-cmd-16130 [003] 158131.585284: sched_switch: prev_comm=trace-cmd prev_pid=16130 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=trace-cmd next_pid=16132 next_prio=120 Latency: 1155.677 usecs
           Average wakeup latency: 26626.656 usecs
       The above trace produces the wakeup latencies of the tasks. The
       "sched_switch" event reports each individual latency after writing
       the event information. At the end of the report, the average wakeup
       latency is reported.
             # trace-cmd report -w -F 'sched_switch, sched_wakeup.*: prio < 100 || next_prio < 100'
                     <idle>-0     [003] 158131.516753: sched_wakeup: comm=ksoftirqd/3 pid=13 prio=49 success=1 target_cpu=003
                     <idle>-0     [003] 158131.516855: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=ksoftirqd/3 next_pid=13 next_prio=49 Latency: 101.244 usecs
                     <idle>-0     [003] 158131.533781: sched_wakeup: comm=ksoftirqd/3 pid=13 prio=49 success=1 target_cpu=003
                     <idle>-0     [003] 158131.533897: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=ksoftirqd/3 next_pid=13 next_prio=49 Latency: 115.608 usecs
                     <idle>-0     [003] 158131.569730: sched_wakeup: comm=ksoftirqd/3 pid=13 prio=49 success=1 target_cpu=003
                     <idle>-0     [003] 158131.569851: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=ksoftirqd/3 next_pid=13 next_prio=49 Latency: 121.024 usecs
           Average wakeup latency: 110.021 usecs
       The above version will only show the wakeups and context switches of
       Real Time tasks. The prio used inside the kernel starts at 0 for
       highest priority. That is prio 0 is equivalent to user space real
       time priority 99, and priority 98 is equivalent to user space real
       time priority 1. Prios less than 100 represent Real Time tasks.
       An example of the profile:
            # trace-cmd record --profile sleep 1
            # trace-cmd report --profile --comm sleep
           task: sleep-21611
             Event: sched_switch:R (1) Total: 99442 Avg: 99442 Max: 99442 Min:99442
                <stack> 1 total:99442 min:99442 max:99442 avg=99442
                  => ftrace_raw_event_sched_switch (0xffffffff8105f812)
                  => __schedule (0xffffffff8150810a)
                  => preempt_schedule (0xffffffff8150842e)
                  => ___preempt_schedule (0xffffffff81273354)
                  => cpu_stop_queue_work (0xffffffff810b03c5)
                  => stop_one_cpu (0xffffffff810b063b)
                  => sched_exec (0xffffffff8106136d)
                  => do_execve_common.isra.27 (0xffffffff81148c89)
                  => do_execve (0xffffffff811490b0)
                  => SyS_execve (0xffffffff811492c4)
                  => return_to_handler (0xffffffff8150e3c8)
                  => stub_execve (0xffffffff8150c699)
             Event: sched_switch:S (1) Total: 1000506680 Avg: 1000506680 Max: 1000506680 Min:1000506680
                <stack> 1 total:1000506680 min:1000506680 max:1000506680 avg=1000506680
                  => ftrace_raw_event_sched_switch (0xffffffff8105f812)
                  => __schedule (0xffffffff8150810a)
                  => schedule (0xffffffff815084b8)
                  => do_nanosleep (0xffffffff8150b22c)
                  => hrtimer_nanosleep (0xffffffff8108d647)
                  => SyS_nanosleep (0xffffffff8108d72c)
                  => return_to_handler (0xffffffff8150e3c8)
                  => tracesys_phase2 (0xffffffff8150c304)
             Event: sched_wakeup:21611 (1) Total: 30326 Avg: 30326 Max: 30326 Min:30326
                <stack> 1 total:30326 min:30326 max:30326 avg=30326
                  => ftrace_raw_event_sched_wakeup_template (0xffffffff8105f653)
                  => ttwu_do_wakeup (0xffffffff810606eb)
                  => ttwu_do_activate.constprop.124 (0xffffffff810607c8)
                  => try_to_wake_up (0xffffffff8106340a)

SEE ALSO         top

       trace-cmd(1), trace-cmd-record(1), trace-cmd-start(1),
       trace-cmd-stop(1), trace-cmd-extract(1), trace-cmd-reset(1),
       trace-cmd-split(1), trace-cmd-list(1), trace-cmd-listen(1),
       trace-cmd-profile(1)

AUTHOR         top

       Written by Steven Rostedt, <rostedt@goodmis.org[1]>

RESOURCES         top

       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git

COPYING         top

       Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc. Free use of this software is granted
       under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

NOTES         top

        1. rostedt@goodmis.org
           mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org

COLOPHON         top

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                                 03/10/2016              TRACE-CMD-REPORT(1)

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