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Message-ID: <aFw0eBq2FBgy21IN@google.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:40:08 -0700
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
	James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>,
	Zhongqiu Han <quic_zhonhan@...cinc.com>,
	Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>,
	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] Pipe mode header dumping and minor space saving

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 01:15:13PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 11:12:34PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > > Pipe mode has no header and emits the data as if it were events. The
> > > dumping of features was controlled by the --header/-I options which
> > > makes little sense when they are events, normally traced when
> > > dump_trace is true. Switch to making pipe feature events also be
> > > traced with detail when other events are.
> >
> > I'm not sure I'm following.  Are you saying the pipe mode doesn't
> > support features with --header/-I option?
> 
> No, in pipe mode it currently shows just PERF_RECORD_FEATURE or
> PERF_RECORD_ATTR for the details of the events containing these
> things. The reason being that the dumping is controlled by separate
> header flags (--header and -I). In patch 1 the commit message shows
> the before:
> ```
> $ perf record -o - -a sleep 1 | perf script -D -i -
> ...
> 0x2c8@...e [0x54]: event: 80
> .
> . ... raw event: size 84 bytes
> .  0000:  50 00 00 00 00 00 54 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  P.....T.........
> .  0010:  40 00 00 00 36 2e 31 35 2e 72 63 37 2e 67 61 64  @...6.15.rc7.gad
> .  0020:  32 61 36 39 31 63 39 39 66 62 00 00 00 00 00 00  2a691c99fb......
> .  0030:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> .  0040:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> .  0050:  00 00 00 00                                      ....
> 
> 0 0 0x2c8 [0x54]: PERF_RECORD_FEATURE
> ```
> 
> That is we have a feature "event" but there are no details there to
> try to be able to understand the feature event. After the change this
> becomes:
> ```
> $ perf record -o - -a sleep 1 | perf script -D -i -
> ...
> 0x2c8@...e [0x54]: event: 80
> .
> . ... raw event: size 84 bytes
> .  0000:  50 00 00 00 00 00 54 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  P.....T.........
> .  0010:  40 00 00 00 36 2e 31 35 2e 72 63 37 2e 67 61 64  @...6.15.rc7.gad
> .  0020:  32 61 36 39 31 63 39 39 66 62 00 00 00 00 00 00  2a691c99fb......
> .  0030:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> .  0040:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> .  0050:  00 00 00 00                                      ....
> 
> 0 0 0x2c8 [0x54]: PERF_RECORD_FEATURE, # perf version : 6.15.rc7.gad2a691c99fb
> ```
> 
> So now in the dump trace output I can see this was a feature for perf
> version and what that value is. There are often multiple
> PERF_RECORD_FEATURE and PERF_RECORD_ATTR "events" and so the extra
> trace output helps in being able to work out what's going on.

Thanks for the clarification, I was confused if it's fixing -I or -D. :)

Namhyung


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