The -L/--lock-filter option is to filter only given locks. The locks
can be specified by address or name (if exists).
$ sudo ./perf lock record -a sleep 1
$ sudo ./perf lock con -l
contended total wait max wait avg wait address symbol
57 1.11 ms 42.83 us 19.54 us ffff9f4140059000
15 280.88 us 23.51 us 18.73 us ffffffff9d007a40 jiffies_lock
1 20.49 us 20.49 us 20.49 us ffffffff9d0d50c0 rcu_state
1 9.02 us 9.02 us 9.02 us ffff9f41759e9ba0
$ sudo ./perf lock con -L jiffies_lock,rcu_state
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
15 280.88 us 23.51 us 18.73 us spinlock tick_sched_do_timer+0x93
1 20.49 us 20.49 us 20.49 us spinlock __softirqentry_text_start+0xeb
$ sudo ./perf lock con -L ffff9f4140059000
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
38 779.40 us 42.83 us 20.51 us spinlock worker_thread+0x50
11 216.30 us 39.87 us 19.66 us spinlock queue_work_on+0x39
8 118.13 us 20.51 us 14.77 us spinlock kthread+0xe5
Committer testing:
# uname -a
Linux quaco 6.0.12-200.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Dec 8 17:15:53 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# perf lock record
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
# perf lock con -L jiffies_lock,rcu_state
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
# perf lock con
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
1 9.06 us 9.06 us 9.06 us spinlock call_timer_fn+0x24
# perf lock con -L call
ignore unknown symbol: call
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
1 9.06 us 9.06 us 9.06 us spinlock call_timer_fn+0x24
#
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221219201732.460111-5-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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