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    perf tools: Add time conversion event · 46bc29b9
    Adrian Hunter authored
    
    
    Intel PT uses the time members from the perf_event_mmap_page to convert
    between TSC and perf time.
    
    Due to a lack of foresight when Intel PT was implemented, those time
    members were recorded in the (implementation dependent) AUXTRACE_INFO
    event, the structure of which is generally inaccessible outside of the
    Intel PT decoder.  However now the conversion between TSC and perf time
    is needed when processing a jitdump file when Intel PT has been used for
    tracing.
    
    So add a user event to record the time members.  'perf record' will
    synthesize the event if the information is available.  And session
    processing will put a copy of the event on the session so that tools
    like 'perf inject' can easily access it.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457426324-30158-1-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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