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author | 2010-05-01 01:41:20 -0500 | |
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committer | 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -0300 | |
commit | 454c407ec17a0c63e4023ac0877d687945a7df4a (patch) | |
tree | 1271299a59a89419c0dd4dcbf29b4492b63555ca /tools/perf/util/trace-event.h | |
parent | perf/live: don't synthesize build ids at the end of a live mode trace (diff) | |
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perf: add perf-inject builtin
Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the
session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events.
What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of
the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the
event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit. Doing
that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits.
This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while
leaving perf-record untouched. Normal mode perf still records the
build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode,
perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps
e.g.:
perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i -
perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout.
At any point the processing code can inject other events into the
event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and
injected as needed into the event stream.
Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially
anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream
with additional information could make use of this facility.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/trace-event.h')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/trace-event.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h b/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h index 1f45d468fd9a..ebfee80e4a07 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event.h @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ struct record *trace_read_data(int cpu); void parse_set_info(int nr_cpus, int long_sz); -ssize_t trace_report(int fd); +ssize_t trace_report(int fd, bool repipe); void *malloc_or_die(unsigned int size); |