From 454c407ec17a0c63e4023ac0877d687945a7df4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Zanussi Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 01:41:20 -0500 Subject: perf: add perf-inject builtin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin.h') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin.h b/tools/perf/builtin.h index 34a8a9ab9617..921245b28583 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin.h +++ b/tools/perf/builtin.h @@ -34,5 +34,6 @@ extern int cmd_kmem(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); extern int cmd_lock(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); extern int cmd_kvm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); extern int cmd_test(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); +extern int cmd_inject(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix); #endif -- cgit v1.2.3