linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/8] perf: Separate out trace-cmd parse-events from perf files

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Message-ID: <20110818135112.GB10441@somewhere>
Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:51:15 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/8] perf: Separate out trace-cmd parse-events from
 perf files

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 06:08:07PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 10:22 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 10:14 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> >> Hi Steve:
> >>
> >> On 08/05/2011 02:59 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >>> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> >>>
> >>> Move the trace-event-parse.c code that originally came from trace-cmd into
> >>> their own files. The new file will be called trace-parse-events.c, as
> >>> the name of trace-cmd's file was parse-events.c too, but it conflicted
> >>> with the parse-events.c file in perf that parses the command line.
> >>>
> >>> This tries to update the code with mimimal changes.
> >>>
> >>> Perf specific code stays in the trace-event-parse.[ch] files and
> >>> the common parsing code is now in trace-parse-events.c and
> >>> trace-parse-events.h.
> >>
> >> What branch should these apply cleanly to?
> > 
> > They are based off of v3.0. You can get these patches from my repo as
> > described in the 0/8 announce email.
> 
> Unfortunately I hastily deleted the 0/8 thread while on vacation last
> week (gmail on Android thing), so I apologize for shifting the discussion.
> 
> With a little bit of hacking on top of your patches I was able to get
> the trace-cmd plugins working with perf. e.g.,
>         qemu-kvm 11971 [001] 30401.777391: kvm_apic_accept_irq: apicid 0
> vec 239 (Fixed|edge)
>         qemu-kvm 11971 [001] 30401.777405: kvm_inj_virq: irq 239
>         qemu-kvm 11971 [001] 30401.777415: kvm_entry: vcpu 0
>         qemu-kvm 11971 [001] 30401.777430: kvm_exit: reason APIC_ACCESS
> rip 0xffffffff8101dbe4 info 10b0 0
> 
> So, what is the next step for making this a reality -- i.e., getting the
> common code into a lib in tools?

I hope. Otherwise we'll simply get stuck with a buggy format parsing in perf.
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