linux/tools/perf
Tom Zanussi 454c407ec1 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>
2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
..
arch perf probe: Add PowerPC DWARF register number mappings 2010-04-22 13:48:31 +10:00
bench perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR() 2010-04-14 11:26:44 +02:00
Documentation perf test: Initial regression testing command 2010-04-29 18:59:23 -03:00
scripts perf trace/scripting: Enable scripting shell scripts for live mode 2010-04-14 11:56:08 +02:00
util perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
.gitignore perf: Ignore perf-archive temp file 2010-01-29 10:37:33 +01:00
builtin-annotate.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-bench.c
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR() 2010-04-14 11:26:44 +02:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-diff.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-help.c perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR() 2010-04-14 11:26:44 +02:00
builtin-inject.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-kmem.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-kvm.c perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host 2010-04-19 12:37:24 +03:00
builtin-list.c
builtin-lock.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Add --max-probes option 2010-04-26 15:35:20 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-stat.c perf: Fix endianness argument compatibility with OPT_BOOLEAN() and introduce OPT_INCR() 2010-04-14 11:26:44 +02:00
builtin-test.c perf test: Initial regression testing command 2010-04-29 18:59:23 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin-trace.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
builtin.h perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
command-list.txt perf test: Initial regression testing command 2010-04-29 18:59:23 -03:00
CREDITS
design.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
Makefile perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
perf-archive.sh perf archive: Explain how to use the generated tarball 2010-03-23 20:33:08 +01:00
perf.c perf: add perf-inject builtin 2010-05-02 13:36:56 -03:00
perf.h perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host 2010-04-19 12:37:24 +03:00