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+perf-script(1)
+=============
+
+NAME
+----
+perf-script - Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'perf script' [<options>]
+'perf script' [<options>] record <script> [<record-options>] <command>
+'perf script' [<options>] report <script> [script-args]
+'perf script' [<options>] <script> <required-script-args> [<record-options>] <command>
+'perf script' [<options>] <top-script> [script-args]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This command reads the input file and displays the trace recorded.
+
+There are several variants of perf script:
+
+ 'perf script' to see a detailed trace of the workload that was
+ recorded.
+
+ You can also run a set of pre-canned scripts that aggregate and
+ summarize the raw trace data in various ways (the list of scripts is
+ available via 'perf script -l'). The following variants allow you to
+ record and run those scripts:
+
+ 'perf script record <script> <command>' to record the events required
+ for 'perf script report'. <script> is the name displayed in the
+ output of 'perf script --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any
+ language extension. If <command> is not specified, the events are
+ recorded using the -a (system-wide) 'perf record' option.
+
+ 'perf script report <script> [args]' to run and display the results
+ of <script>. <script> is the name displayed in the output of 'perf
+ script --list' i.e. the actual script name minus any language
+ extension. The perf.data output from a previous run of 'perf script
+ record <script>' is used and should be present for this command to
+ succeed. [args] refers to the (mainly optional) args expected by
+ the script.
+
+ 'perf script <script> <required-script-args> <command>' to both
+ record the events required for <script> and to run the <script>
+ using 'live-mode' i.e. without writing anything to disk. <script>
+ is the name displayed in the output of 'perf script --list' i.e. the
+ actual script name minus any language extension. If <command> is
+ not specified, the events are recorded using the -a (system-wide)
+ 'perf record' option. If <script> has any required args, they
+ should be specified before <command>. This mode doesn't allow for
+ optional script args to be specified; if optional script args are
+ desired, they can be specified using separate 'perf script record'
+ and 'perf script report' commands, with the stdout of the record step
+ piped to the stdin of the report script, using the '-o -' and '-i -'
+ options of the corresponding commands.
+
+ 'perf script <top-script>' to both record the events required for
+ <top-script> and to run the <top-script> using 'live-mode'
+ i.e. without writing anything to disk. <top-script> is the name
+ displayed in the output of 'perf script --list' i.e. the actual
+ script name minus any language extension; a <top-script> is defined
+ as any script name ending with the string 'top'.
+
+ [<record-options>] can be passed to the record steps of 'perf script
+ record' and 'live-mode' variants; this isn't possible however for
+ <top-script> 'live-mode' or 'perf script report' variants.
+
+ See the 'SEE ALSO' section for links to language-specific
+ information on how to write and run your own trace scripts.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+<command>...::
+ Any command you can specify in a shell.
+
+-D::
+--dump-raw-trace=::
+ Display verbose dump of the trace data.
+
+-L::
+--Latency=::
+ Show latency attributes (irqs/preemption disabled, etc).
+
+-l::
+--list=::
+ Display a list of available trace scripts.
+
+-s ['lang']::
+--script=::
+ Process trace data with the given script ([lang]:script[.ext]).
+ If the string 'lang' is specified in place of a script name, a
+ list of supported languages will be displayed instead.
+
+-g::
+--gen-script=::
+ Generate perf-script.[ext] starter script for given language,
+ using current perf.data.
+
+-a::
+ Force system-wide collection. Scripts run without a <command>
+ normally use -a by default, while scripts run with a <command>
+ normally don't - this option allows the latter to be run in
+ system-wide mode.
+
+-i::
+--input=::
+ Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
+
+-d::
+--debug-mode::
+ Do various checks like samples ordering and lost events.
+
+-F::
+--fields::
+ Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
+ comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, ip, sym, dso, addr, symoff,
+ srcline, period, iregs, uregs, brstack, brstacksym, flags, bpf-output, brstackinsn,
+ brstackoff, callindent, insn, insnlen, synth, phys_addr, metric, misc, srccode, ipc.
+ Field list can be prepended with the type, trace, sw or hw,
+ to indicate to which event type the field list applies.
+ e.g., -F sw:comm,tid,time,ip,sym and -F trace:time,cpu,trace
+
+ perf script -F <fields>
+
+ is equivalent to:
+
+ perf script -F trace:<fields> -F sw:<fields> -F hw:<fields>
+
+ i.e., the specified fields apply to all event types if the type string
+ is not given.
+
+ In addition to overriding fields, it is also possible to add or remove
+ fields from the defaults. For example
+
+ -F -cpu,+insn
+
+ removes the cpu field and adds the insn field. Adding/removing fields
+ cannot be mixed with normal overriding.
+
+ The arguments are processed in the order received. A later usage can
+ reset a prior request. e.g.:
+
+ -F trace: -F comm,tid,time,ip,sym
+
+ The first -F suppresses trace events (field list is ""), but then the
+ second invocation sets the fields to comm,tid,time,ip,sym. In this case a
+ warning is given to the user:
+
+ "Overriding previous field request for all events."
+
+ Alternatively, consider the order:
+
+ -F comm,tid,time,ip,sym -F trace:
+
+ The first -F sets the fields for all events and the second -F
+ suppresses trace events. The user is given a warning message about
+ the override, and the result of the above is that only S/W and H/W
+ events are displayed with the given fields.
+
+ It's possible tp add/remove fields only for specific event type:
+
+ -Fsw:-cpu,-period
+
+ removes cpu and period from software events.
+
+ For the 'wildcard' option if a user selected field is invalid for an
+ event type, a message is displayed to the user that the option is
+ ignored for that type. For example:
+
+ $ perf script -F comm,tid,trace
+ 'trace' not valid for hardware events. Ignoring.
+ 'trace' not valid for software events. Ignoring.
+
+ Alternatively, if the type is given an invalid field is specified it
+ is an error. For example:
+
+ perf script -v -F sw:comm,tid,trace
+ 'trace' not valid for software events.
+
+ At this point usage is displayed, and perf-script exits.
+
+ The flags field is synthesized and may have a value when Instruction
+ Trace decoding. The flags are "bcrosyiABEx" which stand for branch,
+ call, return, conditional, system, asynchronous, interrupt,
+ transaction abort, trace begin, trace end, and in transaction,
+ respectively. Known combinations of flags are printed more nicely e.g.
+ "call" for "bc", "return" for "br", "jcc" for "bo", "jmp" for "b",
+ "int" for "bci", "iret" for "bri", "syscall" for "bcs", "sysret" for "brs",
+ "async" for "by", "hw int" for "bcyi", "tx abrt" for "bA", "tr strt" for "bB",
+ "tr end" for "bE". However the "x" flag will be display separately in those
+ cases e.g. "jcc (x)" for a condition branch within a transaction.
+
+ The callindent field is synthesized and may have a value when
+ Instruction Trace decoding. For calls and returns, it will display the
+ name of the symbol indented with spaces to reflect the stack depth.
+
+ When doing instruction trace decoding insn and insnlen give the
+ instruction bytes and the instruction length of the current
+ instruction.
+
+ The synth field is used by synthesized events which may be created when
+ Instruction Trace decoding.
+
+ The ipc (instructions per cycle) field is synthesized and may have a value when
+ Instruction Trace decoding.
+
+ Finally, a user may not set fields to none for all event types.
+ i.e., -F "" is not allowed.
+
+ The brstack output includes branch related information with raw addresses using the
+ /v/v/v/v/cycles syntax in the following order:
+ FROM: branch source instruction
+ TO : branch target instruction
+ M/P/-: M=branch target mispredicted or branch direction was mispredicted, P=target predicted or direction predicted, -=not supported
+ X/- : X=branch inside a transactional region, -=not in transaction region or not supported
+ A/- : A=TSX abort entry, -=not aborted region or not supported
+ cycles
+
+ The brstacksym is identical to brstack, except that the FROM and TO addresses are printed in a symbolic form if possible.
+
+ When brstackinsn is specified the full assembler sequences of branch sequences for each sample
+ is printed. This is the full execution path leading to the sample. This is only supported when the
+ sample was recorded with perf record -b or -j any.
+
+ The brstackoff field will print an offset into a specific dso/binary.
+
+ With the metric option perf script can compute metrics for
+ sampling periods, similar to perf stat. This requires
+ specifying a group with multiple events defining metrics with the :S option
+ for perf record. perf will sample on the first event, and
+ print computed metrics for all the events in the group. Please note
+ that the metric computed is averaged over the whole sampling
+ period (since the last sample), not just for the sample point.
+
+ For sample events it's possible to display misc field with -F +misc option,
+ following letters are displayed for each bit:
+
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL K
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER U
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_HYPERVISOR H
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL G
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER g
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA* M
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC E
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT S
+ PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT Sp
+
+ $ perf script -F +misc ...
+ sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636582: 4590 cycles ...
+ sched-messaging 1407 U 28690.636600: 325620 cycles ...
+ sched-messaging 1414 K 28690.636608: 19473 cycles ...
+ misc field ___________/
+
+-k::
+--vmlinux=<file>::
+ vmlinux pathname
+
+--kallsyms=<file>::
+ kallsyms pathname
+
+--symfs=<directory>::
+ Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
+
+-G::
+--hide-call-graph::
+ When printing symbols do not display call chain.
+
+--stop-bt::
+ Stop display of callgraph at these symbols
+
+-C::
+--cpu:: Only report samples for the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can
+ be provided as a comma-separated list with no space: 0,1. Ranges of
+ CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all
+ CPUs.
+
+-c::
+--comms=::
+ Only display events for these comms. CSV that understands
+ file://filename entries.
+
+--pid=::
+ Only show events for given process ID (comma separated list).
+
+--tid=::
+ Only show events for given thread ID (comma separated list).
+
+-I::
+--show-info::
+ Display extended information about the perf.data file. This adds
+ information which may be very large and thus may clutter the display.
+ It currently includes: cpu and numa topology of the host system.
+ It can only be used with the perf script report mode.
+
+--show-kernel-path::
+ Try to resolve the path of [kernel.kallsyms]
+
+--show-task-events
+ Display task related events (e.g. FORK, COMM, EXIT).
+
+--show-mmap-events
+ Display mmap related events (e.g. MMAP, MMAP2).
+
+--show-namespace-events
+ Display namespace events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES.
+
+--show-switch-events
+ Display context switch events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_SWITCH or
+ PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE.
+
+--show-lost-events
+ Display lost events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_LOST.
+
+--show-round-events
+ Display finished round events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND.
+
+--show-bpf-events
+ Display bpf events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL and PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT.
+
+--show-cgroup-events
+ Display cgroup events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_CGROUP.
+
+--show-text-poke-events
+ Display text poke events i.e. events of type PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE and
+ PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL.
+
+--demangle::
+ Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
+ disable with --no-demangle.
+
+--demangle-kernel::
+ Demangle kernel symbol names to human readable form (for C++ kernels).
+
+--header
+ Show perf.data header.
+
+--header-only
+ Show only perf.data header.
+
+--itrace::
+ Options for decoding instruction tracing data. The options are:
+
+include::itrace.txt[]
+
+ To disable decoding entirely, use --no-itrace.
+
+--full-source-path::
+ Show the full path for source files for srcline output.
+
+--max-stack::
+ Set the stack depth limit when parsing the callchain, anything
+ beyond the specified depth will be ignored. This is a trade-off
+ between information loss and faster processing especially for
+ workloads that can have a very long callchain stack.
+ Note that when using the --itrace option the synthesized callchain size
+ will override this value if the synthesized callchain size is bigger.
+
+ Default: 127
+
+--ns::
+ Use 9 decimal places when displaying time (i.e. show the nanoseconds)
+
+-f::
+--force::
+ Don't do ownership validation.
+
+--time::
+ Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times
+ have the format seconds.nanoseconds. If start is not given (i.e. time
+ string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If
+ stop time is not given (i.e. time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes
+ to end of file. Multiple ranges can be separated by spaces, which
+ requires the argument to be quoted e.g. --time "1234.567,1234.789 1235,"
+
+ Also support time percent with multiple time ranges. Time string is
+ 'a%/n,b%/m,...' or 'a%-b%,c%-%d,...'.
+
+ For example:
+ Select the second 10% time slice:
+ perf script --time 10%/2
+
+ Select from 0% to 10% time slice:
+ perf script --time 0%-10%
+
+ Select the first and second 10% time slices:
+ perf script --time 10%/1,10%/2
+
+ Select from 0% to 10% and 30% to 40% slices:
+ perf script --time 0%-10%,30%-40%
+
+--max-blocks::
+ Set the maximum number of program blocks to print with brstackinsn for
+ each sample.
+
+--reltime::
+ Print time stamps relative to trace start.
+
+--deltatime::
+ Print time stamps relative to previous event.
+
+--per-event-dump::
+ Create per event files with a "perf.data.EVENT.dump" name instead of
+ printing to stdout, useful, for instance, for generating flamegraphs.
+
+--inline::
+ If a callgraph address belongs to an inlined function, the inline stack
+ will be printed. Each entry has function name and file/line. Enabled by
+ default, disable with --no-inline.
+
+--insn-trace::
+ Show instruction stream for intel_pt traces. Combine with --xed to
+ show disassembly.
+
+--xed::
+ Run xed disassembler on output. Requires installing the xed disassembler.
+
+-S::
+--symbols=symbol[,symbol...]::
+ Only consider the listed symbols. Symbols are typically a name
+ but they may also be hexadecimal address.
+
+ For example, to select the symbol noploop or the address 0x4007a0:
+ perf script --symbols=noploop,0x4007a0
+
+--call-trace::
+ Show call stream for intel_pt traces. The CPUs are interleaved, but
+ can be filtered with -C.
+
+--call-ret-trace::
+ Show call and return stream for intel_pt traces.
+
+--graph-function::
+ For itrace only show specified functions and their callees for
+ itrace. Multiple functions can be separated by comma.
+
+--switch-on EVENT_NAME::
+ Only consider events after this event is found.
+
+--switch-off EVENT_NAME::
+ Stop considering events after this event is found.
+
+--show-on-off-events::
+ Show the --switch-on/off events too.
+
+--stitch-lbr::
+ Show callgraph with stitched LBRs, which may have more complete
+ callgraph. The perf.data file must have been obtained using
+ perf record --call-graph lbr.
+ Disabled by default. In common cases with call stack overflows,
+ it can recreate better call stacks than the default lbr call stack
+ output. But this approach is not full proof. There can be cases
+ where it creates incorrect call stacks from incorrect matches.
+ The known limitations include exception handing such as
+ setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not match.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-script-perl[1],
+linkperf:perf-script-python[1], linkperf:perf-intel-pt[1]