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authormwilli2@equilibrium.research.intel-research.net <mwilli2@equilibrium.research.intel-research.net>2004-03-11 19:55:00 +0000
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+.TH XENTRACE 8 "11 March 2004" "Xen domain 0 utils"
+.SH NAME
+xentrace \- capture Xen trace buffer data
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B xentrace
+[
+.I OPTIONS
+] [
+.I FILE
+]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B xentrace
+is used to dump data from Xen's per-cpu trace buffers. Records
+are dumped in ASCII format, onto the standard output or a \fIFILE\fP
+specified on the command line.
+Trace records are formatted as follows:
+.PP
+ CPU TSC EVENT D1 D2 D3 D4 D5
+.PP
+Where CPU is the processor number, TSC is the record's timestamp
+(the value of the CPU cycle counter), EVENT is the event ID and
+D1...D5 are the trace data.
+
+.SS Options
+.TP
+.B -t, --log-thresh=l
+set the threshold number, l, of new records required to trigger a write of
+all new records to the output
+.TP
+.B -s, --poll-sleep=p
+set the time, p, (in milliseconds) to sleep between polling the buffers
+for new data.
+
+.SH AUTHOR
+Mark A. Williamson <mark.a.williamson@intel.com>
+
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+xentrace_cpuinfo(1), xentrace_format(1)