linux/tools
Jiwei Sun 6d57581659 perf record: Add support for limit perf output file size
The patch adds a new option to limit the output file size, then based on
it, we can create a wrapper of the perf command that uses the option to
avoid exhausting the disk space by the unconscious user.

In order to make the perf.data parsable, we just limit the sample data
size, since the perf.data consists of many headers and sample data and
other data, the actual size of the recorded file will bigger than the
setting value.

Testing it:

  # ./perf record -a -g --max-size=10M
  Couldn't synthesize bpf events.
  [ perf record: perf size limit reached (10249 KB), stopping session ]
  [ perf record: Woken up 32 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 10.133 MB perf.data (71964 samples) ]

  # ls -lh perf.data
  -rw------- 1 root root 11M Oct 22 14:32 perf.data

  # ./perf record -a -g --max-size=10K
  [ perf record: perf size limit reached (10 KB), stopping session ]
  Couldn't synthesize bpf events.
  [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.546 MB perf.data (69 samples) ]

  # ls -l perf.data
  -rw------- 1 root root 1626952 Oct 22 14:36 perf.data

Committer notes:

Fixed the build in multiple distros by using PRIu64 to print u64 struct
members, fixing this:

  builtin-record.c: In function 'record__write':
  builtin-record.c:150:5: error: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u64' [-Werror=format=]
       rec->bytes_written >> 10);
       ^
    CC       /tmp/build/pe

Signed-off-by: Jiwei Sun <jiwei.sun@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Danter <richard.danter@windriver.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191022080901.3841-1-jiwei.sun@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-11-07 08:30:19 -03:00
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accounting
arch perf/core improvements and fixes: 2019-10-22 01:15:45 +02:00
bpf tools: bpf: Use !building_out_of_srctree to determine srctree 2019-09-30 10:53:34 +02:00
build tools build: Add capability-related feature detection 2019-08-12 17:14:14 -03:00
cgroup iocost_monitor: Report debt 2019-09-10 12:31:39 -06:00
debugging
firewire
firmware
gpio
hv - First round of vmbus hibernation support from Dexuan Cui. 2019-09-24 12:36:31 -07:00
iio tools: iio: add .gitignore 2019-08-18 20:45:57 +01:00
include tools headers UAPI: Sync sched.h with the kernel 2019-10-15 12:44:00 -03:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib libsubcmd: Use -O0 with DEBUG=1 2019-11-06 15:49:39 -03:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Update the informal documentation 2019-08-09 10:28:57 -07:00
nfsd
objtool KVM: x86: Check kvm_rebooting in kvm_spurious_fault() 2019-09-25 15:23:33 +02:00
pci
pcmcia
perf perf record: Add support for limit perf output file size 2019-11-07 08:30:19 -03:00
power platform-drivers-x86 for v5.4-2 2019-09-24 12:39:40 -07:00
scripts
spi
testing selftests: kvm: fix sync_regs_test with newer gccs 2019-10-22 13:31:18 +02:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb
virtio tools/virtio: xen stub 2019-10-13 09:38:27 -04:00
vm
wmi
Makefile tools: Keep list of tools in alphabetical order 2019-08-14 10:59:59 -03:00