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Documentation: amd-pstate: add tracer tool introduction
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Add amd pstate tracer tool introduction

Signed-off-by: Jinzhou Su <Jinzhou.Su@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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policies with other scaling governors).


Tracer Tool
-------------

``amd_pstate_tracer.py`` can record and parse ``amd-pstate`` trace log, then
generate performance plots. This utility can be used to debug and tune the
performance of ``amd-pstate`` driver. The tracer tool needs to import intel
pstate tracer.

Tracer tool located in ``linux/tools/power/x86/amd_pstate_tracer``. It can be
used in two ways. If trace file is available, then directly parse the file
with command ::

./amd_pstate_trace.py [-c cpus] -t <trace_file> -n <test_name>

Or generate trace file with root privilege, then parse and plot with command ::

sudo ./amd_pstate_trace.py [-c cpus] -n <test_name> -i <interval> [-m kbytes]

The test result can be found in ``results/test_name``. Following is the example
about part of the output. ::

common_cpu common_secs common_usecs min_perf des_perf max_perf freq mperf apef tsc load duration_ms sample_num elapsed_time common_comm
CPU_005 712 116384 39 49 166 0.7565 9645075 2214891 38431470 25.1 11.646 469 2.496 kworker/5:0-40
CPU_006 712 116408 39 49 166 0.6769 8950227 1839034 37192089 24.06 11.272 470 2.496 kworker/6:0-1264


Reference
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