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2017-03-29tools/kvm_stat: add interactive command 'r'Stefan Raspl
Provide an interactive command to reset the tracepoint statistics. Requires some extra work for debugfs, as the counters cannot be reset. On the up side, this offers us the opportunity to have debugfs values reset on startup and whenever a filter is modified, becoming consistent with the tracepoint provider. As a bonus, 'kvmstat -dt' will now provide useful output, instead of mixing values in totally different orders of magnitude. Furthermore, we avoid unnecessary resets when any of the filters is "changed" interactively to the previous value. Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2017-03-29tools/kvm_stat: add interactive command 'c'Stefan Raspl
Provide a real simple way to erase any active filter. Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2017-03-29tools/kvm_stat: add option '--guest'Stefan Raspl
Add a new option '-g'/'--guest' to select a particular process by providing the QEMU guest name. Notes: - The logic to figure out the pid corresponding to the guest name might look scary, but works pretty reliably in practice; in the unlikely event that it returns add'l flukes, it will bail out and hint at using '-p' instead, no harm done. - Mixing '-g' and '-p' is possible, and the final instance specified on the command line is the significant one. This is consistent with current behavior for '-p' which, if specified multiple times, also regards the final instance as the significant one. Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2017-03-29tools/kvm_stat: document list of interactive commandsStefan Raspl
Apart from the source code, there does not seem to be a place that documents the interactive capabilities of kvm_stat yet. Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2016-05-25tools: kvm_stat: Introduce pid monitoringJanosch Frank
Having stats for single VMs can help to determine the problem of a VM without the need of running other tools like perf. The tracepoints already allowed pid level monitoring, but kvm_stat didn't have support for it till now. Support for the newly implemented debugfs vm monitoring was also implemented. Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-05-25tools: Add kvm_stat man pagePaolo Bonzini
Converted from the Texinfo source in QEMU to asciidoc. The a2x incantation was provided by Janosch Frank. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>