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Commit 1627314f authored by Alexander Shishkin's avatar Alexander Shishkin Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf: Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records



It has been pointed out to me many times that it is useful to be able to
switch off AUX records to save the bandwidth for records that actually
matter, for example, in AUX overwrite mode.

The usefulness of PERF_RECORD_AUX is in some of its flags, like the
TRUNCATED flag that tells the decoder where exactly gaps in the trace
are.  The OVERWRITE flag, on the other hand will be set on every single
record in overwrite mode. However, a PERF_RECORD_AUX[flags=OVERWRITE] is
generated on every target task's sched_out, which over time adds up to a
lot of useless information.

If any folks out there have userspace that depends on a constant stream
of OVERWRITE records for a good reason, they'll have to let us know.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404145323.28651-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 7f16023b
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