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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2 1/2] perf tools: Collect tracing event data files directly
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 08:27:34AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Please work out disagreements with Arnaldo and do librarization
> > within perf if you are interested in that angle. If those internal
> > interfaces become visibly boring and are consistently used by
> > everything in a way that every main contributor agrees on then we can
> > perhaps librarize it. Not the other way around.
>
> For parsing of events, which is what I proposed, it seems to be boring
> technical stuff that has been well established by the limitations of the
> ABI forced on the debugfs system. It's already over a year old and used
> by several developers. One nice feature to come with this is the ability
> to add plugins to parse the trace events without needing to read all the
> format files. Things like kvm events will suddenly work.
>
> The one disagreement that we are still sorting out is just the name of
> the library. I first said libperf (which would make sense to have in
> tools/perf/lib) but then it wasn't doing perf specific work. It was just
> a way to parse kernel trace points. Nobody seemed to like libparsevent.
> I think one of the names that makes sense is libtrace, or libktrace as
> it has to do with tracepoints in the kernel. Maybe just libktracepoint?
> But that's quite an ugly name.

libtracevent ?


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