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    perf record: Split output into multiple files via '--switch-output' · 3c1cb7e3
    Wang Nan authored
    
    
    Allow 'perf record' to split its output into multiple files.
    
    For example:
    
      # ~/perf record -a --timestamp-filename --switch-output &
      [1] 10763
      # kill -s SIGUSR2 10763
      [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
      # [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622314468 ]
    
      # kill -s SIGUSR2 10763
      [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
      # [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622314762 ]
    
      # kill -s SIGUSR2 10763
      [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ]
      #[ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622315171 ]
    
      # fg
      perf record -a --timestamp-filename --switch-output
      ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
      [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622315513 ]
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.014 MB perf.data.<timestamp> (296 samples) ]
    
      # ls -l
      total 920
      -rw------- 1 root root 797692 Dec 26 22:31 perf.data.2015122622314468
      -rw------- 1 root root  59960 Dec 26 22:31 perf.data.2015122622314762
      -rw------- 1 root root  59912 Dec 26 22:31 perf.data.2015122622315171
      -rw------- 1 root root  19220 Dec 26 22:31 perf.data.2015122622315513
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
    Cc: pi3orama@163.com
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461178794-40467-4-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHe Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
    [ Added man page entry, used the re-synthesize patch in this series as a fixup ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    3c1cb7e3