Re: [PATCH 0/3] tools lib traceevent: Fixing the API to be less policy driven

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Aug 29 2019 - 16:37:59 EST


Em Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 02:00:10PM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> On Mon, 05 Aug 2019 16:43:12 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Arnaldo and Jiri,
>
> Hi Arnaldo,
>
> I think these fell through the cracks.

Got it now, pushed to my perf/core branch, soon to be pushed upstream.

Thanks,

- Arnaldo

> -- Steve
>
> >
> > We are still working on getting libtraceevent ready to be a stand alone
> > library. Part of that is to audit all the interfaces. We noticed
> > that the most the tep_print_*() interfaces define policy and limit
> > the way an application can display data. Instead of fixing this later
> > and being stuck with a limiting API that we must maintain for backward
> > compatibility, we removed and replaced most of it. perf was only affected
> > by a single function that was removed. These functions are replaced
> > by a more flexible one that allows the user to place what they want
> > where they want it (timestamps, event info, latency format, COMM, PID, etc).
> >
> > The other noticeable perf change, is that we changed the location to
> > where the plugins are loaded from:
> >
> > ${HOME}/.traceevent/plugins
> >
> > to
> >
> > ${HOME}/.local/lib/traceevent/plugins
> >
> > As Patrick McLean (Gentoo package maintainer) informed us of the
> > XGD layout.
> >
> > Should we have something the warns people if they have plugins in
> > the old directory. Should we move them on install? Currently, we
> > just ignore them.
> >
> > Anyway, please add these patches to tip.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -- Steve
> >
> >
> > Tzvetomir Stoyanov (3):
> > tools/lib/traceevent, tools/perf: Changes in tep_print_event_* APIs
> > tools/lib/traceevent: Remove tep_register_trace_clock()
> > tools/lib/traceevent: Change user's plugin directory
> >
> > ----
> > tools/lib/traceevent/Makefile | 6 +-
> > tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse-api.c | 40 ----
> > tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse-local.h | 6 -
> > tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 333 +++++++++++++++++--------------
> > tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.h | 30 +--
> > tools/lib/traceevent/event-plugin.c | 2 +-
> > tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c | 3 +-
> > tools/perf/util/sort.c | 3 +-
> > tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c | 2 +-
> > 9 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 218 deletions(-)

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- Arnaldo