'perf kwork record <command>' to record the kernel work
of an arbitrary workload.

'perf kwork report' to report the per kwork runtime.

'perf kwork latency' to report the per kwork latencies.

'perf kwork timehist' provides an analysis of kernel work events.

Example usage:


    perf kwork record -- sleep 1


    perf kwork report


    perf kwork report -b


    perf kwork latency


    perf kwork latency -b


    perf kwork timehist

By default it shows the individual work events such as irq, workqeueu,
including the run time and delay (time between raise and actually entry):

   Runtime start      Runtime end        Cpu     Kwork name                 Runtime     Delaytime


                                                 (TYPE)NAME:NUM             (msec)      (msec)
-----------------  -----------------  ------  -------------------------  ----------  ----------


   1811186.976062     1811186.976327  [0000]  (s)RCU:9                        0.266       0.114


   1811186.978452     1811186.978547  [0000]  (s)SCHED:7                      0.095       0.171


   1811186.980327     1811186.980490  [0000]  (s)SCHED:7                      0.162       0.083


   1811186.981221     1811186.981271  [0000]  (s)SCHED:7                      0.050       0.077


   1811186.984267     1811186.984318  [0000]  (s)SCHED:7                      0.051       0.075


   1811186.987252     1811186.987315  [0000]  (s)SCHED:7                      0.063       0.081


   1811186.987785     1811186.987843  [0006]  (s)RCU:9                        0.058       0.645


   1811186.988319     1811186.988383  [0000]  (s)SCHED:7                      0.064       0.143


   1811186.989404     1811186.989607  [0002]  (s)TIMER:1                      0.203       0.111


   1811186.989660     1811186.989732  [0002]  (s)SCHED:7                      0.072       0.310


   1811186.991295     1811186.991407  [0002]  eth0:10                         0.112


   1811186.991639     1811186.991734  [0002]  (s)NET_RX:3                     0.095       0.277


   1811186.989860     1811186.991826  [0002]  (w)vmstat_shepherd              1.966       0.345


 ...

Times are in msec.usec.

Display verbose dump of the sched data.

Don’t complain, do it.

List of kwork to profile (irq, softirq, workqueue, etc)

Be more verbose. (show symbol address, etc)

.ft C
-b::
--use-bpf::


        Use BPF to measure kwork runtime
-C::
--cpu::


        Only show events for the given CPU(s) (comma separated list).
-i::
--input::


        Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)
-n::
--name::


        Only show events for the given name.
-s::
--sort::


        Sort by key(s): runtime, max, count
-S::
--with-summary::


        Show summary with statistics
--time::


        Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times


        have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time


        string is ',x.y') then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If


        stop time is not given (i.e, time string is 'x.y,') then analysis goes


        to end of file.
OPTIONS for 'perf kwork latency'
.ft

Use BPF to measure kwork latency

Only show events for the given CPU(s) (comma separated list).

Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)

Only show events for the given name.

Sort by key(s): avg, max, count

Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time string is ,x.y) then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If stop time is not given (i.e, time string is x.y,) then analysis goes to end of file.

Only show events for the given CPU(s) (comma separated list).

Display call chains if present (default off).

Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo)

Vmlinux pathname

Only show events for the given name.

Kallsyms pathname

Maximum number of functions to display in backtrace, default 5.

Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.

Only analyze samples within given time window: <start>,<stop>. Times have the format seconds.microseconds. If start is not given (i.e., time string is ,x.y) then analysis starts at the beginning of the file. If stop time is not given (i.e, time string is x.y,) then analysis goes to end of file.