TRACE-CMD-DUMP(1)

NAME
trace-cmd-dump - show a meta data from a trace file, created by trace-cmd record

SYNOPSIS

trace-cmd dump [OPTIONS] [input-file]

DESCRIPTION

The trace-cmd(1) dump command will display the meta data from a trace file created by trace-cmd record.

OPTIONS

-i input-file
    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.

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

--summary
    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.

--head-page
    Print the header page information, stored in the file.

--head-event
    Print the event header information, stored in the file.

--ftrace-events
    Print formats of ftrace specific events.

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

--events
    Print formats of all events, stored in the file.

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

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

--cmd-lines
    Print mapping a PID to a process name.

--options
    Print all options, stored in the file.

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

--all
    Print all meta data from the file.

--help
    Print usage information.

EXAMPLES

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

    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]

# trace-cmd dump --summary --systems -i trace.dat

    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

SEE ALSO

trace-cmd(1), trace-cmd.dat(1)

AUTHOR

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org[1]>, author of trace-cmd. Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com[2]>, author of this man page.

RESOURCES

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git

COPYING

Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

NOTES

1.  rostedt@goodmis.org
    mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org

2.  tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
    mailto:tz.stoyanov@gmail.com