perf intel-pt: Support Z itrace option for timeless decoding

Correlating virtual machine TSC packets is not supported at present, so
instead support the Z itrace option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430070309.17624-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
index 1dcec73c910c192434b2a48ce519a3e9abcbff34..33df7898c3785745eba4ec6b8b97f3ec3f10c958 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt
@@ -869,6 +869,7 @@ The letters are:
        L       synthesize last branch entries on existing event records
        s       skip initial number of events
        q       quicker (less detailed) decoding
+       Z       prefer to ignore timestamps (so-called "timeless" decoding)
 
 "Instructions" events look like they were recorded by "perf record -e
 instructions".
@@ -1062,6 +1063,10 @@ What *will* be decoded with the qq option:
 
        - instruction pointer associated with PSB packets
 
+The Z option is equivalent to having recorded a trace without TSC
+(i.e. config term tsc=0). It can be useful to avoid timestamp issues when
+decoding a trace of a virtual machine.
+
 
 dump option
 ~~~~~~~~~~~

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
index eef8970d98fef7d36f6e5dcbdba53359e4cb8483..7bee969eb3353388cc0bfd5475500ec52c112b8a 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ static bool intel_pt_timeless_decoding(struct intel_pt *pt)
        bool timeless_decoding = true;
        u64 config;
 
-       if (!pt->tsc_bit || !pt->cap_user_time_zero)
+       if (!pt->tsc_bit || !pt->cap_user_time_zero || pt->synth_opts.timeless_decoding)
                return true;
 
        evlist__for_each_entry(pt->session->evlist, evsel) {