[PATCH v5 0/2] perf timechart: Add --live mode to the TUI and test

[Ian Rogers]

Add a '--live' option to 'perf timechart' and 'ttimechart.py' that streams
live scheduler, power, or I/O (-I/--io-only) events from a 'perf record'
subprocess over a pipe and displays them in the Textual TUI with a rolling
time window (--window, default 10s), pause/resume via the control pipe, an
optional workload after '--' that stops recording when it exits, and
optional output recording (-o), along with headless shell tests in
test_ttimechart_python.sh.

Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.1-pro

v5: Address Sashiko review feedback:
    - Patch 1: Always record system wide, as 'perf timechart record'
      does, as switches into a task and idle states aren't seen by
      per-task events when only a workload was recorded.
    - Patch 1: Don't move a task's state start back before its recorded
      history when its switch out and back in were lost, which inflated
      its running time.
    - Patch 1: Serialize LiveRecorder.stop() calls from the UI thread and
      the thread processing events.
    - Patch 2: Only run the live recording test when scheduler events can
      be recorded system wide.
    v4: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20261023050207.2449976-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/

v4: Address Sashiko review feedback on patch 1:
    - Don't prune live history past the last event, so open states aren't
      lost when no events arrive for a window, and don't count a still
      running task's open segment as a switch.
    - Keep showing the window at the end of recording, rather than jumping
      back to already pruned history, and prune events flushed as perf
      record exits.
    - Close open task, CPU and I/O states when resuming after a pause,
      rather than extending them across the unrecorded gap, and close the
      running task when a switch away from it was lost.
    - Stop perf record and close the files and pipes if
      LiveRecorder.start() fails after starting it, and close the data pipe
      read ends in LiveRecorder.stop().
    v3: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20261023041819.2361900-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/

v3: Address Sashiko review feedback:
    - Patch 1: Explicitly include <string.h> in builtin-timechart.c.
    - Patch 1: Reject non-finite --window values (e.g. 'inf') that
      overflowed converting to nanoseconds.
    - Patch 2: Stop the fake recorder in a try/finally in the synthetic
      live UI test so a failed check can't leave its background thread
      running and hang the test.
    Rebase onto the latest perf-tools-next.
    v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20261014042249.2379829-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/

v2: Rebase the remaining 2 patches onto perf-tools-next after patches 1-11
    of v1 were merged.

Alice Rogers (2):
  perf timechart: Add a --live mode to the TUI
  perf test: Test perf timechart --live

 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-timechart.txt   |  20 +-
 tools/perf/builtin-timechart.c                |  81 +-
 tools/perf/python/ttimechart.py               | 901 ++++++++++++++++--
 .../tests/shell/test_ttimechart_python.sh     | 310 ++++++
 4 files changed, 1237 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

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