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Applies To: Windows 8, Windows 8.1

Displays stack-walking options. Stack-walking flags can be specified either directly on the command line or in a file.

xperf -on base -stackwalk ThreadCreate+ProcessCreate

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xperf -on base -stackwalk ThreadCreate -stackwalk ProcessCreate

- Or -

xperf -on base -stackwalk @stack.txt

- Or -

xperf -on base -stackwalk 0x0501

Remarks

Custom stack walking flags can be specified in format: 0xmmnn, where mm is event group and nn is event type.

The file can contain empty lines or comments that are prefixed by an exclamation mark (!).

The following list shows the recognized stack-walking flags:

  • AlpcClosePort

  • AlpcConnectFail

  • AlpcConnectRequest

  • AlpcConnectSuccess

  • AlpcReceiveMessage

  • AlpcSendMessage

  • AlpcUnwait

  • AlpcWaitForNewMessage

  • AlpcWaitForReply

  • CcCanIWriteFail

  • CcFlushCache

  • CcFlushSection

  • CcLazyWriteScan

  • CcReadAhead

  • CcWorkitemComplete

  • CcWorkitemDequeue

  • CcWorkitemEnqueue

  • CcWriteBehind

  • ContiguousMemoryGeneration

  • CritSecCollision

  • CSwitch

  • DiskFlushInit

  • DiskReadInit

  • DiskWriteInit

  • ExecutiveResource

  • FileCleanup

  • FileClose

  • FileCreate

  • FileDelete

  • FileDirEnum

  • FileDirNotify

  • FileFlush

  • FileFSCTL

  • FileOpEnd

  • FileQueryInformation

  • FileRead

  • FileRename

  • FileSetInformation

  • FileWrite

  • HardFault

  • HeapAlloc

  • HeapCreate

  • HeapDestroy

  • HeapFree

  • HeapRangeCreate

  • HeapRangeDestroy

  • HeapRangeRelease

  • HeapRangeReserve

  • HeapRealloc

  • ImageLoad

  • ImageUnload

  • KernelQueueDequeue

  • KernelQueueEnqueue

  • KernelSignal

  • KernelSignalInit

  • KernelSync

  • KernelSyncAll

  • KernelWaitSync

  • KernelWaitSyncAll

  • MapFile

  • Mark

  • MiniFilterPostOpInit

  • MiniFilterPreOpInit

  • PagefaultAV

  • PagefaultCopyOnWrite

  • PagefaultDemandZero

  • PagefaultGuard

  • PagefaultHard

  • PagefaultTransition

  • PagefileBackedImageMapping

  • PageRangeAccess

  • PageRangeRelease

  • PoolAlloc

  • PoolAllocSession

  • PoolFree

  • PoolFreeSession

  • PowerDeviceNotify

  • PowerDeviceNotifyComplete

  • PowerIdleStateChange

  • PowerPerfStateChange

  • PowerPostSleep

  • PowerPreSleep

  • PowerSessionCallout

  • PowerSessionCalloutReturn

  • PowerSetDevicesState

  • PowerSetDevicesStateReturn

  • PowerSetPowerAction

  • PowerSetPowerActionReturn

  • PowerThermalConstraint

  • ProcessCreate

  • ProcessDelete

  • Profile

  • ProfileSetInterval

  • ReadyThread

  • RegCloseKey

  • RegCreateKey

  • RegDeleteKey

  • RegDeleteValue

  • RegEnumerateKey

  • RegEnumerateValueKey

  • RegFlush

  • RegKcbCreate

  • RegKcbDelete

  • RegOpenKey

  • RegQueryKey

  • RegQueryMultipleValue

  • RegQueryValue

  • RegSetInformation

  • RegSetValue

  • RegVirtualize

  • SplitIO

  • SyscallEnter

  • SyscallExit

  • ThreadCreate

  • ThreadDelete

  • ThreadPoolCallbackCancel

  • ThreadPoolCallbackDequeue

  • ThreadPoolCallbackEnqueue

  • ThreadPoolCallbackStart

  • ThreadPoolCallbackStop

  • ThreadPoolClose

  • ThreadPoolCreate

  • ThreadPoolSetMaxThreads

  • ThreadPoolSetMinThreads

  • ThreadSetBasePriority

  • ThreadSetPriority

  • TimerSetOneShot

  • TimerSetPeriodic

  • UnMapFile

  • VirtualAlloc

  • VirtualFree

Example

The stack-walking flag file can contain any number of stack-walking flags per line, separated by spaces, plus signs (+), or on new lines, as shown in the following example.

ThreadCreate ProcessCreate
DiskReadInit+DiskWriteInit+DiskFlushInit
CSwitch

See Also

Other Resources

Xperf Options