From 871480933a1c28f8a9fed4c4d34d06c439a7a422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Srikant Patnaik Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:28:04 +0530 Subject: Moved, renamed, and deleted files The original directory structure was scattered and unorganized. Changes are basically to make it look like kernel structure. --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dd84cb2f --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +perf-kvm(1) +=========== + +NAME +---- +perf-kvm - Tool to trace/measure kvm guest os + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'perf kvm' [--host] [--guest] [--guestmount= + [--guestkallsyms= --guestmodules= | --guestvmlinux=]] + {top|record|report|diff|buildid-list} +'perf kvm' [--host] [--guest] [--guestkallsyms= --guestmodules= + | --guestvmlinux=] {top|record|report|diff|buildid-list} + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +There are a couple of variants of perf kvm: + + 'perf kvm [options] top ' to generates and displays + a performance counter profile of guest os in realtime + of an arbitrary workload. + + 'perf kvm record ' to record the performance counter profile + of an arbitrary workload and save it into a perf data file. If both + --host and --guest are input, the perf data file name is perf.data.kvm. + If there is no --host but --guest, the file name is perf.data.guest. + If there is no --guest but --host, the file name is perf.data.host. + + 'perf kvm report' to display the performance counter profile information + recorded via perf kvm record. + + 'perf kvm diff' to displays the performance difference amongst two perf.data + files captured via perf record. + + 'perf kvm buildid-list' to display the buildids found in a perf data file, + so that other tools can be used to fetch packages with matching symbol tables + for use by perf report. + +OPTIONS +------- +-i:: +--input=:: + Input file name. +-o:: +--output:: + Output file name. +--host=:: + Collect host side performance profile. +--guest=:: + Collect guest side performance profile. +--guestmount=:: + Guest os root file system mount directory. Users mounts guest os + root directories under by a specific filesystem access method, + typically, sshfs. For example, start 2 guest os. The one's pid is 8888 + and the other's is 9999. + #mkdir ~/guestmount; cd ~/guestmount + #sshfs -o allow_other,direct_io -p 5551 localhost:/ 8888/ + #sshfs -o allow_other,direct_io -p 5552 localhost:/ 9999/ + #perf kvm --host --guest --guestmount=~/guestmount top +--guestkallsyms=:: + Guest os /proc/kallsyms file copy. 'perf' kvm' reads it to get guest + kernel symbols. Users copy it out from guest os. +--guestmodules=:: + Guest os /proc/modules file copy. 'perf' kvm' reads it to get guest + kernel module information. Users copy it out from guest os. +--guestvmlinux=:: + Guest os kernel vmlinux. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkperf:perf-top[1], linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], +linkperf:perf-diff[1], linkperf:perf-buildid-list[1] -- cgit