> On Feb 15, 2019, at 10:20 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
> wrote:
>
> Em Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:47:58PM +0000, Song Liu escreveu:
>>
>>
>>> On Feb 15, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Em Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:25:01PM +0000, Song Liu escreveu:
>>>>> On Feb 15, 2019, at 6:26 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Em Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 04:00:09PM -0800, Song Liu escreveu:
>>>>>> This patch enables perf-record to save btf information as headers to
>>>>>> perf.data A new header type HEADER_BTF is introduced for this data.
>>>
>>>>> Wouldn't it be better for this HEADER_BTF to be introduced
>>>>> already as an user space event, Song, see:
>>>
>>>>> tools/perf/util/event.h
>>>
>>>>> and:
>>>
>>>>> tools/perf/util/event.c
>>>
>>>>> perf_event__synthesize_cpu_map()
>>>
>>>> BTF would be short living for short living BPF programs. I guess
>>>> saving them as header is easier than merging them with samples.
>>>
>>>> What's the benefit of saving them as user space events?
>>>
>>> When we work with pipe mode, i.e.:
>>>
>>> perf record -o - | perf report -i -
>>>
>>> and other combinations (with 'perf script', 'perf inject', etc), we need
>>> a way to pass the headers to the other side, and the way was via user
>>> space events.
>>>
>>> This is something Stephane and Jiri have been discussing recently,
>>> probably they have more justifications, Stephane, Jiri?
>>>
>>> - Arnaldo
>>
>> I see. In this case, we will need some synchronization between main
>> thread and the polling thread, as they are both writing to the same
>> pipe.
>
> So, the whole context is that we need to have 'perf record' to start a
> thread per CPU and then read the already per-cpu mmap buffers in the
> matching thread, with the right affinity, numa settings to have the
> record phase not cause contention, etc, so it ends up dumping one stream
> per CPU in a separate file in a 'perf.data' directory instead of a
> perf.data file.
>
> Jiri is working on that, so, if you dump one more stream into that
> directory, it would, at post processing time, be ordered together with
> the other stream, the per-cpu ones.
>
> - Arnaldo
I see. This solution looks great.
For this set, how about I keep this part as-is (at least for v3)? In
this case, it will goes to the header file after Jiri's change. Once
Jiri's work is done, I will move them into per-cpu files.
Thanks,
Song
