By default, trace-cmd dump will read the file trace.dat. But the -i option open up the given input-file instead. Note, the input file may also be specified as the last item on the command line.

Check if the input file is a valid trace file, created by trace-cmd.

Print a meta data summary - initial format and a short description of each file section. This is the default action, if no arguments are specified.

Print the header page information, stored in the file.

Print the event header information, stored in the file.

Print formats of ftrace specific events.

Print information of event systems, stored in the file - name and number of events for each system.

Print formats of all events, stored in the file.

Print information of the mapping of function addresses to the function names.

Print trace_printk() format strings, stored in the file.

Print mapping a PID to a process name.

Print all options, stored in the file.

Print the offset and the size of tracing data per each CPU.

Print all meta data from the file.

Print usage information.

Tracing meta data in file trace.dat:


       [Initial format]


               6       [Version]


               0       [Little endian]


               8       [Bytes in a long]


               4096    [Page size, bytes]


       [Header info, 205 bytes]


       [Header event, 205 bytes]


       [Ftrace format, 15 events]


       [Events format, 2 systems]


       [Kallsyms, 7144493 bytes]


       [Trace printk, 2131 bytes]


       [Saved command lines, 117 bytes]


       8 [CPUs with tracing data]


       [12 options]


       [Flyrecord tracing data]

# trace-cmd dump --flyrecord -i trace.dat


        [Flyrecord tracing data]


                 7176192 0      [offset, size of cpu 0]


                 7176192 0      [offset, size of cpu 1]


                 7176192 0      [offset, size of cpu 2]


                 7176192 4096   [offset, size of cpu 3]


                 7180288 4096   [offset, size of cpu 4]


                 7184384 0      [offset, size of cpu 5]


                 7184384 0      [offset, size of cpu 6]


                 7184384 0      [offset, size of cpu 7]

Tracing meta data in file trace.dat:


       [Initial format]


               6       [Version]


               0       [Little endian]


               8       [Bytes in a long]


               4096    [Page size, bytes]


       [Header info, 205 bytes]


       [Header event, 205 bytes]


       [Ftrace format, 15 events]


       [Events format, 3 systems]


               sched 23 [system, events]


               irq 5 [system, events]


               kvm 70 [system, events]


       [Kallsyms, 7144493 bytes]


       [Trace printk, 2131 bytes]


       [Saved command lines, 157 bytes]


       8 [CPUs with tracing data]


       [11 options]


       [Flyrecord tracing data]

# trace-cmd dump --summary --systems -i trace.dat
File trace.dat is a valid trace-cmd file

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