Re: [PATCHv3 0/8] perf tools: Add perf data CTF conversion

From: Matthew Khouzam
Date: Fri Jan 16 2015 - 09:49:15 EST

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As a Trace Compass developper, this opens a lot of possibilities for us,
like correlating PCAP, Perf and LTTng traces...

I hope it gets in soon as we already support it. :)
On 15-01-15 11:15 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi,
> this is follow up on original RFC patchset:
> http://marc.info/?t=140732735600004&r=1&w=2
>
> Basically we are adding 'perf data convert' command to
> allow conversion of perf data file into CTF [1] data.
>
> v3 changes:
> - rebased to latest acme's perf/core
>
> v2 changes:
> - addressed comments from Namhyung
> - rebased to latest acme's perf/core
>
> Changes from RFC:
> - able to generate CTF data, that are possible to be displayed under
> tracecompas GUI [3], please check several screenshots in here [4]
> - storing CTF data streams per cpu
> - several cleanups
>
> Examples:
> - Catch default perf data (cycles event):
> $ perf record ls
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.012 MB perf.data (~546 samples) ]
>
> - To display converted CTF data run [2]:
> $ babeltrace ./ctf-data/
> [03:19:13.962125533] (+?.?????????) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 }
> [03:19:13.962130001] (+0.000004468) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1 }
> [03:19:13.962131936] (+0.000001935) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 8 }
> [03:19:13.962133732] (+0.000001796) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 114 }
> [03:19:13.962135557] (+0.000001825) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8105443A, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 2087 }
> [03:19:13.962137627] (+0.000002070) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF81361938, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 37582 }
> [03:19:13.962161091] (+0.000023464) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8124218F, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 600246 }
> [03:19:13.962517569] (+0.000356478) cycles: { }, { ip = 0xFFFFFFFF811A75DB, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1325731 }
> [03:19:13.969518008] (+0.007000439) cycles: { }, { ip = 0x34080917B2, tid = 20714, pid = 20714, period = 1144298 }
>
> - To get some nice output in tracecompas GUI [3], please capture sched:*
> and syscall tracepoints like:
> # perf record -e 'sched:*,raw_syscalls:*' -a
> ^C[ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 412.347 MB perf.data (~18015721 samples) ]
>
> - To convert perf data file run:
> # perf data convert --to-ctf=./ctf
> [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into CTF data './ctf' ]
> [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 408.421 MB (3964792 samples) ]
>
> - To display converted CTF data run [2]:
> # babeltrace ./ctf-data/
> [23:32:20.165354855] (+0.000000507) sched:sched_wakeup: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF810BCA72, perf_tid = 0, perf_pid = 0, perf_id = 462554, perf_period = 1, common_type = 265, ...
> [23:32:20.165359078] (+0.000001181) sched:sched_switch: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8172A110, perf_tid = 0, perf_pid = 0, perf_id = 462562, perf_period = 1, common_type = 263, ...
> [23:32:20.165364686] (+0.000000328) sched:sched_stat_runtime: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF810C8AE5, perf_tid = 5326, perf_pid = 5326, perf_id = 462610, perf_period = 11380, ...
> [23:32:20.165366067] (+0.000001205) sched:sched_switch: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF8172A110, perf_tid = 5326, perf_pid = 5326, perf_id = 462562, perf_period = 1, common_type ...
> [23:32:20.165723312] (+0.000001479) sched:sched_stat_runtime: { cpu_id = 2 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF810C8AE5, perf_tid = 11821, perf_pid = 11821, perf_id = 462612, perf_period = 1000265, ...
> [23:32:20.065282391] (+?.?????????) raw_syscalls:sys_enter: { cpu_id = 1 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF810230AF, perf_tid = 26155, perf_pid = 26155, perf_id = 462635, perf_period = 1, ...
> [23:32:20.065286422] (+0.000004031) raw_syscalls:sys_exit: { cpu_id = 1 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFFFFFFF810231D8, perf_tid = 26155, perf_pid = 26155, perf_id = 462639, perf_period = 1, ...
>
> - Or run tracecompass and open the CTF data ;-)
>
> Changes are also reachable in here:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git
> perf/core_ctf_convert
>
> thanks,
> jirka
>
> [1] Common Trace Format - http://www.efficios.com/ctf
> [2] babeltrace - http://www.efficios.com/babeltrace
> [3] Trace compass - http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.tracecompass
> [4] screenshots - http://people.redhat.com/~jolsa/tracecompass-perf/
>
>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dominique Toupin <dominique.toupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Jiri Olsa (5):
> perf tools: Add feature check for libbabeltrace
> perf tools: Add new perf data command
> perf data: Add perf data to CTF conversion support
> perf data: Enable stream flush within processing
> perf data: Add support for setting ordered_events queue size
>
> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (3):
> perf data: Add a 'perf' prefix to the generic fields
> perf data: Add tracepoint events fields CTF conversion support
> perf data: Switch to multiple cpu stream files
>
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-data.txt | 40 ++
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf.txt | 7 +-
> tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 9 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-data.c | 119 ++++++
> tools/perf/builtin.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/command-list.txt | 1 +
> tools/perf/config/Makefile | 24 ++
> tools/perf/config/feature-checks/Makefile | 8 +-
> tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-all.c | 5 +
> tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libbabeltrace.c | 8 +
> tools/perf/perf.c | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c | 1057 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.h | 8 +
> tools/perf/util/debug.c | 2 +
> tools/perf/util/debug.h | 1 +
> 15 files changed, 1287 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-data.txt
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/builtin-data.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/config/feature-checks/test-libbabeltrace.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.h

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