This script is supposed to be allowed to run with regular user
privileges if a previously captured trace is being post processed.
Commit fbe313884d (tools/power/x86/intel_pstate_tracer: Free the
trace buffer memory) introduced a bug that breaks that option.
Commit 35459105de (tools/power/x86/intel_pstate_tracer: Add
optional setting of trace buffer memory allocation) moved the code
but kept the bug.
This patch fixes the issue.
Fixes: 35459105de (tools/power/x86/intel_pstate_tracer: Add optional ...)
Signed-off-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Allow the user to override the default trace buffer memory allocation
by adding a command line option to override the default.
The patch also:
Adds a SIGINT (i.e. CTRL C exit) handler,
so that things can be cleaned up before exit.
Moves the postion of some other cleanup from after to
before the potential "No valid data to plot" exit.
Replaces all quit() calls with sys.exit, because
quit() is not supposed to be used in scripts.
Signed-off-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The trace buffer memory should be, mostly, freed after
the buffer has been output.
This patch is required before a future patch that will allow
the user to override the default, and specify the trace buffer
memory allocation as a command line option.
Signed-off-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The intel_pstate_tracer.py script only needs to be run as root
when it is also used to actually acquire the trace data that
it will post process. Otherwise it is generally preferable
that it be run as a regular user.
If run the first time as root the results directory will be
incorrect for any subsequent run as a regular user. For any run
as root the specific testname subdirectory will not allow any
subsequent file saves by a regular user. Typically, and for example,
the regular user might be attempting to save a .csv file converted to
a spreadsheet with added calculations or graphs.
Set the directories and files owner and groups IDs to be the regular
user, if required.
Signed-off-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This utility can be used to debug and tune the performance of the
intel_pstate driver.
This utility can be used in two ways:
- If there is Linux trace file with pstate_sample events enabled, then
this utility can parse the trace file and generate performance plots.
- If user has not specified a trace file as input via command line
parameters, then this utility enables and collects trace data for a
user-specified interval and generates performance plots.
Signed-off-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
