linux/tools/perf
Jiri Olsa 29208e573a perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
Fixing the way the tracing information is stored within record command.
The current implementation is causing issues for pipe output.

Following commands fail currently:
	perf script syscall-counts ls
	perf record -e syscalls:sys_exit_read ls | ./perf report -i -

The tracing information is part of the perf data file. It contains
several files from within the tracing debugfs and procs directories.

Beside some static header files, for each tracing event the format
file is added. The /proc/kallsyms file is also added.

The tracing data are stored with preceeding size. This is causing some
dificulties for pipe output, since there's no way to tell debugfs/proc
file size before reading it. So, for pipe output, all the debugfs files
were read twice. Once to get the overall size and once to store the
content itself. This can cause problem in case any of these file
changed, within the storage time.

To fix this behaviour and ensure the integrity of the tracing data, we:
    - read debugfs/proc file into the temp file
    - get temp file size and dump it to the pipe
    - dump the temp file contents to the pipe

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111020135943.GD2092@jolsa.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-10-20 12:41:42 -02:00
..
arch perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
bench perf tool: Fix gcc 4.6.0 issues 2011-02-07 12:41:41 -02:00
config perf tools: git mv tools/perf/{features-tests.mak,config/} 2011-04-19 08:18:36 -03:00
Documentation perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults 2011-10-18 17:03:32 -02:00
python perf evlist: Store pointer to the cpu and thread maps 2011-01-31 12:40:52 -02:00
scripts perf script: Add drop monitor script 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -03:00
util perf tools: Fix tracing info recording 2011-10-20 12:41:42 -02:00
.gitignore perf tools: Makefile: Remove various and sundry cruft 2011-02-18 07:43:06 -02:00
builtin-annotate.c perf tools: Make --no-asm-raw the default 2011-10-07 17:01:32 -03:00
builtin-bench.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf buildid-list: Support showing the build id in an ELF file 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -03:00
builtin-diff.c perf hists: Allow limiting the number of rows and columns in fprintf 2011-10-07 12:11:49 -03:00
builtin-evlist.c perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
builtin-help.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
builtin-kmem.c perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
builtin-kvm.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Allow filtering list of events 2011-02-17 15:38:58 -02:00
builtin-lock.c perf lock: Dropping unsupported ':r' modifier 2011-08-08 09:41:35 -03:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Warn when more than one line are given 2011-08-12 09:27:11 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf tools: Make --no-asm-raw the default 2011-10-07 17:01:32 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf sched: Usage leftover from trace -> script rename 2011-08-09 13:32:12 -03:00
builtin-script.c perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
builtin-stat.c perf tools: Make stat/record print fatal signals of the target program 2011-09-29 17:09:46 -03:00
builtin-test.c perf tool: Fix endianness handling of u32 data in samples 2011-09-23 14:37:27 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf top: Fix the 'E' hotkey, select among multiple events 2011-10-17 09:10:24 -02:00
builtin.h perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
command-list.txt perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
CREDITS
design.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
Makefile perf top: Reuse the 'report' hist_entry/hists classes 2011-10-07 16:56:44 -03:00
MANIFEST perf packaging: add memcpy to perf MANIFEST 2010-11-30 23:00:10 -02:00
perf-archive.sh perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
perf.c perf ui browser: Handle SIGWINCH 2011-10-13 08:52:46 -03:00
perf.h perf ui browser: Handle SIGWINCH 2011-10-13 08:52:46 -03:00