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  1. 28 Nov, 2009 8 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf scripting: Fix build · cf72344d
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cf72344d
    • Tom Zanussi's avatar
      perf trace: Add a scripts/perl/bin for perf trace shell scripts · 1ae4a971
      Tom Zanussi authored 
      To capture the relevant events for a given Perl script and to
avoid having to continually remember and type in long
command-lines, add a scripts/perl/bin directory containing two
simple shell scripts for each Perl script, one for recording and
one for processing/display. For example, to record perf data for
the rw-by-pid.pl script, run scripts/perl/bin/rw-by-pid-record
and to actually run the script and display the output run
scripts/perl/bin/rw-by-pid-report.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
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Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1ae4a971
    • Tom Zanussi's avatar
      perf trace: Add Documentation for perf trace Perl support · 89fbf0b8
      Tom Zanussi authored 
      Adds perf-trace-perl Documentation and a link to it from the
perf-trace page.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      89fbf0b8
    • Tom Zanussi's avatar
      perf trace: Add interface to access perf data from Perl handlers · d1b93772
      Tom Zanussi authored 
      The Perl scripting support for perf trace allows most of a trace
event's data to be accessed directly as handler arguments, but
not all of it e.g. the less common fields aren't passed in.  To
give scripts access to the other fields and/or any other data or
metadata in the main perf executable that might be useful, a way
to access the C data in perf from Perl is needed; this patch
uses the Perl XS facility to do it for the common_xxx event
fields not passed to handler functions.

Context.pm exports three functions to Perl scripts that access
fields for the current event by calling back into perf:
common_pc(), common_flags() and common_lock_depth().  Support
for common_flags() field values was added to Core.pm and a
script used to sanity check these and other basic scripting
features, check-perf-trace.pl, was also added.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
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Cc: hch@infradead.org
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d1b93772
    • Tom Zanussi's avatar
      perf trace: Add perf trace scripting support modules for Perl · bcefe12e
      Tom Zanussi authored 
      Add Perf-Trace-Util Perl module and some scripts that use it.
Core.pm contains Perl code to define and access flag and
symbolic fields. Util.pm contains general-purpose utility
functions.

Also adds some makefile bits to install them in
libexec/perf-core/scripts/perl (or wherever perfexec_instdir
points).
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
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Cc: anton@samba.org
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      bcefe12e
    • Tom Zanussi's avatar
      perf trace: Add Perl scripting support · 16c632de
      Tom Zanussi authored 
      Implement trace_scripting_ops to make Perl a supported perf
trace scripting language.

Additionally adds code that allows Perl trace scripts to access
the 'flag' and 'symbolic' (__print_flags(), __print_symbolic())
field information parsed from the trace format files.

Also adds the Perl implementation of the generate_script()
trace_scripting_op, which creates a ready-to-run perf trace Perl
script based on existing trace data.  Scripts generated by this
implementation print out all the fields for each event mentioned
in perf.data (and will detect and generate the proper scripting
code for 'flag' and 'symbolic' fields), and will additionally
generate handlers for the special 'trace_unhandled',
'trace_begin' and 'trace_end' handlers.  Script authors can
simply remove the printing code to implement their own custom
event handling.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
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Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      16c632de
    • Tom Zanussi's avatar
      perf trace: Add flag/symbolic format_flags · eb9a42ca
      Tom Zanussi authored 
      It's useful to know whether a field is a flag or symbolic field
for e.g. when generating scripts - it allows us to translate
those fields specially rather than literally as plain numeric
values.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      eb9a42ca
    • Tom Zanussi's avatar
      perf trace: Add scripting ops · 956ffd02
      Tom Zanussi authored 
      Adds an interface, scripting_ops, that when implemented for a
particular scripting language enables built-in support for trace
stream processing using that language.

The interface is designed to enable full-fledged language
interpreters to be embedded inside the perf executable and
thereby make the full capabilities of the supported languages
available for trace processing.

See below for details on the interface.

This patch also adds a couple command-line options to 'perf
trace':

The -s option option is used to specify the script to be run.
Script names that can be used with -s take the form:

[language spec:]scriptname[.ext]

Scripting languages register a set of 'language specs' that can
be used to specify scripts for the registered languages.  The
specs can be used either as prefixes or extensions.

If [language spec:] is used, the script is taken as a script of
the matching language regardless of any extension it might have.
 If [language spec:] is not used, [.ext] is used to look up the
language it corresponds to.  Language specs are case
insensitive.

e.g. Perl scripts can be specified in the following ways:

Perl:scriptname
pl:scriptname.py # extension ignored
PL:scriptname
scriptname.pl
scriptname.perl

The -g [language spec] option gives users an easy starting point
for writing scripts in the specified language.  Scripting
support for a particular language can implement a
generate_script() scripting op that outputs an empty (or
near-empty) set of handlers for all the events contained in a
given perf.data trace file - this option gives users a direct
way to access that.

Adding support for a scripting language
---------------------------------------

The main thing that needs to be done do add support for a new
language is to implement the scripting_ops interface:

It consists of the following four functions:

    start_script()
    stop_script()
    process_event()
    generate_script()

start_script() is called before any events are processed, and is
meant to give the scripting language support an opportunity to
set things up to receive events e.g. create and initialize an
instance of a language interpreter.

stop_script() is called after all events are processed, and is
meant to give the scripting language support an opportunity to
clean up e.g. destroy the interpreter instance, etc.

process_event() is called once for each event and takes as its
main parameter a pointer to the binary trace event record to be
processed. The implementation is responsible for picking out the
binary fields from the event record and sending them to the
script handler function associated with that event e.g. a
function derived from the event name it's meant to handle e.g.
'sched::sched_switch()'.  The 'format' information for trace
events can be used to parse the binary data and map it into a
form usable by a given scripting language; see the Perl
implemention in subsequent patches for one possible way to
leverage the existing trace format parsing code in perf and map
that info into specific scripting language types.

generate_script() should generate a ready-to-run script for the
current set of events in the trace, preferably with bodies that
print out every field for each event.  Again, look at the Perl
implementation for clues as to how that can be done.  This is an
optional, but very useful op.

Support for a given language should also add a language-specific
setup function and call it from setup_scripting().  The
language-specific setup function associates the the scripting
ops for that language with one or more 'language specifiers'
(see below) using script_spec_register().  When a script name is
specified on the command line, the scripting ops associated with
the specified language are used to instantiate and use the
appropriate interpreter to process the trace stream.

In general, it should be relatively easy to add support for a
new language, especially if the language implementation supports
an interface allowing an interpreter to be 'embedded' inside
another program (in this case the containing program will be
'perf trace'). If so, it should be relatively straightforward to
translate trace events into invocations of user-defined script
functions where e.g. the function name corresponds to the event
type and the function parameters correspond to the event fields.
 The event and field type information exported by the event
tracing infrastructure (via the event 'format' files) should be
enough to parse and send any piece of trace data to the user
script.  The easiest way to see how this can be done would be to
look at the Perl implementation contained in
perf/util/trace-event-perl.c/.h.

There are a couple of other things that aren't covered by the
scripting_ops or setup interface and are technically optional,
but should be implemented if possible.  One of these is support
for 'flag' and 'symbolic' fields e.g. being able to use more
human-readable values such as 'GFP_KERNEL' or
HI/BLOCK_IOPOLL/TASKLET in place of raw flag values.  See the
Perl implementation to see how this can be done. The other thing
is support for 'calling back' into the perf executable to access
e.g. uncommon fields not passed by default into handler
functions, or any metadata the implementation might want to make
available to users via the language interface.  Again, see the
Perl implementation for examples.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      956ffd02
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