perf trace: Filter out 'sshd' in the tracer ancestry in syswide tracing
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:32:05 +0000 (11:32 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:16:25 +0000 (15:16 -0300)
commit082ab9a18e532864d1ceecfb50221df62b1d5a92
tree5ff262d2099de106864d771940a4debdb1fc8a01
parentdd1a50377c92321f78fa4d0601bb4d88d88670ab
perf trace: Filter out 'sshd' in the tracer ancestry in syswide tracing

Avoiding a loop, so now its quite convenient to ssh to a machine and
then simply do:

# perf trace

To trace all syscalls without causing a loop.

This was possible using --filter-pids, i.e. once you noticed the loop,
get the sshd pid and add it to --filter-pids, restarting the 'perf
trace'.

Now to figure out how to do that in a X terminal, the other common
scenario, which is way more involved, as there are multiple processes
communicating to process terminal activity...

Using --filter-pids + '-e \!syscall,names,you,dont,need' may be a good
approximation when having to do syswide tracing on your workstation.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-68rjeao9wnpylla41htk7xps@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c