[PATCH v5 0/2] rtla: fix cgroup and trace options parsing

From: Ivan Pravdin

Date: Mon Nov 03 2025 - 11:20:16 EST


This series fixes 2 issue in rtla timerlat and osnoise parsing.

1. Make -C/--cgroup option more user-friendly. Currently rtla timerlat
and osnoise parses does not allow to specify tracer's threads cgroup
name as `-C [cgroup]` or `--cgroup [cgroup]`. Second patch fixes this
by allowing users to specify cgroup in the aforementioned manner.

2. When specifying `-t/--trace` before `-a/--auto`, trace filename is
override to default <osnoise|timerlat>_trace.txt. For example, when
running rtla as

`rtla timerlat top -t custom_file.txt -a 100`

when the threshold is reached, timerlat_trace.txt file is created
instead of specified custom_file.txt. Third patch addresses this
issue.

changes v4 -> v5:
- Removed setting trace_output before checking if it's NULL in
`fix -a overriding -t argument` patch

changes v3 -> v4:
- Removed patch [1] as it has been mainlined
- Resolved merge conflicts with [2]

changes v2 -> v3:
- Combined common logic into a utility function to parse optional
argument value
- Removed change that removed `clear_terminal`

changes v1 -> v2:
- Moved removing clear_terminal from `fix -C/--cgroup interface`
patch to `fix -a overriding -t argument` patch
- Added clarification why to remove clear_terminal
- Added `Fixes:` tag to the `fix -C/--cgroup interface` patch

v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1760791697.git.ipravdin.official@xxxxxxxxx/
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1757034919.git.ipravdin.official@xxxxxxxxx/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1755018581.git.ipravdin.official@xxxxxxxxx/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1755014784.git.ipravdin.official@xxxxxxxxx/

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/164ffc2ec8edacaf1295789dad82a07817b6263d.1757034919.git.ipravdin.official@xxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-trace-kernel/list/?series=999703

Ivan Pravdin (2):
rtla: fix -C/--cgroup interface
rtla: fix -a overriding -t argument

Documentation/tools/rtla/common_options.rst | 2 +-
tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_hist.c | 29 +++++++--------------
tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_top.c | 29 +++++++--------------
tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c | 29 +++++++--------------
tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c | 29 +++++++--------------
tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++
tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.h | 1 +
7 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)

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