Em Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:20:08AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> I was hoping you could provide points on how to get access to an interpreted
> field in a tracepoint within perf.
 
> This is an example of the tracepoint:
 
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/irq/softirq_exit/format
> name: softirq_exit
> ID: 99
> format:
>       field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; 
> signed:0;
>       field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; 
> signed:0;
>       field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1; 
> signed:0;
>       field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;
>       field:int common_padding;       offset:8;       size:4; signed:1;
> 
>       field:unsigned int vec; offset:12;      size:4; signed:0;
> 
> print fmt: "vec=%u [action=%s]", REC->vec, __print_symbolic(REC->vec, {
> HI_SOFTIRQ, "HI" }, { TIMER_SOFTIRQ, "TIMER" }, { NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, "NET_TX"
> }, { NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, "NET_RX" }, { BLOCK_SOFTIRQ, "BLOCK" }, {
> BLOCK_IOPOLL_SOFTIRQ, "BLOCK_IOPOLL" }, { TASKLET_SOFTIRQ, "TASKLET" }, {
> SCHED_SOFTIRQ, "SCHED" }, { HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ, "HRTIMER" }, { RCU_SOFTIRQ,
> "RCU" })
 
> I would like to programmatically extract the action string. 'perf script'
> prints the samples fine which suggests libtraceevent extracts the
> information somehow.
 
> Can you provide a suggestion -- something along the lines of
> perf_evsel__intval() or perf_evsel__rawptr()?

We'll gonna have to parse the "print fmt" thing and look for entries
surrounded by [], then match it with the list of parameters, so that we
can end up with a:

        const char *perf_evsel__enum_entry(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
                                           struct perf_sample *sample,
                                           const char *enum_name,
                                           int value);

That would return one of "TIMER", "NET_TX", etc, that is, 0,
1, N.

If it is strictly an enum, i.e. no holes and just by looking at the
"format" file above I don't see how it could have holes, albeit enums
may have, we can as well have this:

        const char *perf_evsel__enum(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
                                     struct perf_sample *sample,
                                     const char *enum_name);

That would return an array of strings that you could directly access,
indexing using some of the fields.

I.e. internally we would see the tracepoint format file as:

        field:enum action vec;  offset:12;      size:4; signed:0;

        enum: action: TIMER, NET_TX, NET_RX, BLOCK, BLOCK_IOPOLL, TASKLET, 
SCHED, HRTIMER, RCU

- Arnaldo
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