Adding new control event to display all evlist events. The interface string for control file is 'list'. When received, perf will scan and print current evlist into perf record terminal.
Example session: terminal 1: # mkfifo control ack perf.pipe # perf record --control=fifo:control,ack -D -1 --no-buffering -e 'sched:*' -o - > perf.pipe Events disabled terminal 2: # echo list > control terminal 1: # perf record --control=fifo:control,ack -D -1 --no-buffering -e 'sched:*' -o - > perf.pipe ... sched:sched_kthread_stop sched:sched_kthread_stop_ret sched:sched_waking sched:sched_wakeup sched:sched_wakeup_new sched:sched_switch sched:sched_migrate_task sched:sched_process_free sched:sched_process_exit sched:sched_wait_task sched:sched_process_wait sched:sched_process_fork sched:sched_process_exec sched:sched_stat_wait sched:sched_stat_sleep sched:sched_stat_iowait sched:sched_stat_blocked sched:sched_stat_runtime sched:sched_pi_setprio sched:sched_move_numa sched:sched_stick_numa sched:sched_swap_numa sched:sched_wake_idle_without_ipi dummy:HG This new command is handy to get real event names when wildcards are used. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 1 + tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 1 + tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 6 ++++++ tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 582b8fba012c..f620ed056c89 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1951,6 +1951,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct record *rec, int argc, const char **argv) case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_UNSUPPORTED: case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_ENABLE_EVSEL: case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_DISABLE_EVSEL: + case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_LIST: default: break; } diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index 6a21fb665008..56f2206b5991 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ static void process_evlist(struct evlist *evlist, unsigned int interval) case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_UNSUPPORTED: case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_ENABLE_EVSEL: case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_DISABLE_EVSEL: + case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_LIST: default: break; } diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c index 05723227bebf..c05476ca2ff4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c @@ -1931,6 +1931,9 @@ static int evlist__ctlfd_recv(struct evlist *evlist, enum evlist_ctl_cmd *cmd, (sizeof(EVLIST_CTL_CMD_SNAPSHOT_TAG)-1))) { *cmd = EVLIST_CTL_CMD_SNAPSHOT; pr_debug("is snapshot\n"); + } else if (!strncmp(cmd_data, EVLIST_CTL_CMD_LIST_TAG, + (sizeof(EVLIST_CTL_CMD_LIST_TAG)-1))) { + *cmd = EVLIST_CTL_CMD_LIST; } } @@ -1995,6 +1998,9 @@ int evlist__ctlfd_process(struct evlist *evlist, enum evlist_ctl_cmd *cmd) pr_info("failed: can't find %s event\n", evsel_name); } break; + case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_LIST: + evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel) + pr_info("%s\n", evsel__name(evsel)); case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_SNAPSHOT: break; case EVLIST_CTL_CMD_ACK: diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h index e4e8ff8831a3..6b8a9918fdb2 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h @@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ struct evsel *evlist__reset_weak_group(struct evlist *evlist, struct evsel *evse #define EVLIST_CTL_CMD_SNAPSHOT_TAG "snapshot" #define EVLIST_CTL_CMD_ENABLE_EVSEL_TAG "enable-" #define EVLIST_CTL_CMD_DISABLE_EVSEL_TAG "disable-" +#define EVLIST_CTL_CMD_LIST_TAG "list" #define EVLIST_CTL_CMD_MAX_LEN 64 @@ -343,6 +344,7 @@ enum evlist_ctl_cmd { EVLIST_CTL_CMD_DISABLE_EVSEL, EVLIST_CTL_CMD_ACK, EVLIST_CTL_CMD_SNAPSHOT, + EVLIST_CTL_CMD_LIST, }; int evlist__parse_control(const char *str, int *ctl_fd, int *ctl_fd_ack, bool *ctl_fd_close); -- 2.26.2