1. 03 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf: add perf-inject builtin · 454c407e
      Tom Zanussi 提交于
      Currently, perf 'live mode' writes build-ids at the end of the
      session, which isn't actually useful for processing live mode events.
      
      What would be better would be to have the build-ids sent before any of
      the samples that reference them, which can be done by processing the
      event stream and retrieving the build-ids on the first hit.  Doing
      that in perf-record itself, however, is off-limits.
      
      This patch introduces perf-inject, which does the same job while
      leaving perf-record untouched.  Normal mode perf still records the
      build-ids at the end of the session as it should, but for live mode,
      perf-inject can be injected in between the record and report steps
      e.g.:
      
      perf record -o - ./hackbench 10 | perf inject -v -b | perf report -v -i -
      
      perf-inject reads a perf-record event stream and repipes it to stdout.
      At any point the processing code can inject other events into the
      event stream - in this case build-ids (-b option) are read and
      injected as needed into the event stream.
      
      Build-ids are just the first user of perf-inject - potentially
      anything that needs userspace processing to augment the trace stream
      with additional information could make use of this facility.
      
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1272696080-16435-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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