linux-kernel - [RFC 0/5] perf: Create hist

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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:10:56 -0400
From:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To:	acme@...nel.org, namhyung@...nel.org, jolsa@...hat.com
Cc:	eranian@...gle.com, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Subject: [RFC 0/5] perf: Create hist_entry groups

This patchset creates a new layer of hist entry objects called
hist_entry_groups.  The purpose is to help organize the hist_entries
into groups before sorting them.  As a result you can gain a
new perspective on the data by organizing the groups into cpu, pid
or cacheline.  See patch 5 for sample output.

The main driver for this patchset is to find a way to sort and display
cacheline data in a way that is useful.  My previous attempts seemed
hackish until I realized cacheline sorting is really just a collection
of hist_entries.  Anyway that was my focus for doing this.

The overall idea looks like:

evlist
  evsel
    hists
        hist_entry_group  <<< new object
          hist_entry

Implementing this was not pretty.  I tried to seperate the patches the
best I could.  But in order for each patch to compile, patch 4 turned into
a 1400 line diff that is mostly noise.

Also, this patchset breaks most tools (mainly because I don't understand
all the interactions), hence the RFC.  I mostly tested with 'perf report
 --stdio' and 'perf mem report --stdio'.

Please let me know if this is an interesting idea to go forward with or not.

Don Zickus (5):
  perf: Wrap __hists__add_entry to prep for group entry change
  perf: Use macros to walk hist entries
  perf: Add in stub hist_entry_group code
  perf:  Switch to using hist_entry_group
  perf: Enable multiple hist_entry_group output

 tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c  |  13 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-diff.c      | 127 +++++-----
 tools/perf/builtin-report.c    |  14 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c       |  22 +-
 tools/perf/tests/hists_link.c  | 124 ++++------
 tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c |  40 +++-
 tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c      |  80 ++++---
 tools/perf/ui/hist.c           |  29 ++-
 tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c     |  97 ++++++--
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c        |   7 +-
 tools/perf/util/hist.c         | 512 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 tools/perf/util/hist.h         |  29 ++-
 tools/perf/util/sort.c         | 183 ++++++++++++++-
 tools/perf/util/sort.h         | 138 ++++++++++-
 14 files changed, 1017 insertions(+), 398 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.11.7

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