Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:28:58 +0200 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: FW: [RFC 0/5] perf tools: Add perf data CTF conversion |
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 01:42:12PM -0400, Alexandre Montplaisir wrote: > Hi Jiri, > > (sorry for breaking the thread, I didn't have the original email, but was > forwarded it)
np, some other folks to the CC
> > I work on the Eclipse viewer (a.k.a. Trace Compass). > > > so I've put perf converted CTF stream into the eclipse CTF trace viewer > and got it displayed with the 'Generic CTF trace' type > > The other type 'LTTng kernel trace' seems to set some rules for the CTF > fields/format the trace has to obey. Is this described somewhere? > > To identify an LTTng kernel trace, we check if the domain defined in the > metadata is "kernel" [1]. I don't think we documented this anywhere though, > we probably should!
ok, easy enough ;-) so I'm guessing this governs the expected CTF layout for event/stream headers/contexts, right?
Also judging from the trace display, you have hardcoded specific displays/actions for specific events? That's all connected/specific under trace type?
> > Once we have some views or analysis specific to perf CTF traces, we could > definitely add a separate trace type for those too.
I guess tracepoints and breakpoints should display something like the standard kernel trace. As for HW events it's usual to display profile infomation as the perf report does: https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tutorial#Sampling_with_perf_record
I tried to record/display lttng event perf:cpu:cycles, but got nothing displayed in eclipse. Looks like this data provides only summary count of the event for the workload?
thanks, jirka
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