Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:43:02 +0100 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: Support for Perf CTF traces now in master (was Re: FW: [RFC 0/5] perf tools: Add perf data CTF conversion) |
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 05:14:45PM -0500, Alexandre Montplaisir wrote: > > On 11/09/2014 08:31 PM, Alexandre Montplaisir wrote: > >On 2014-11-05 10:25 PM, Alexandre Montplaisir wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>>But if you could for example tell me the perf equivalents of all the > >>>>strings in that file, I could hack together such wrapper. With that, > >>>>in theory, perf traces should behave exactly the same as LTTng traces > >>>>in the viewer! > >>>Oooh, that would be awesome. So I installed maven but didn't get much > >>>further. Let me gather this for you. > >> > >>Awesome, thanks! > >> > >>I am travelling this week, so I'm a bit busy, but I will try to > >>prototype a "wrapper" for the kernel analysis, and adding support for > >>the perf events, whenever I have a chance. I'll keep you posted. > > > >Ok, some good news! > > > >I managed to get the CTF traces from perf working in Trace Compass! See > >attached screenshots. This is showing the "ctf-out2" trace from your > >previous email. The other trace seems to have less events enabled, so it > >would only show some WAIT_FOR_CPU states in the view. > > > >If anybody wishes to try it, you can grab the whole branch ending at > >https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/36200/ . Or run: > >$ git fetch > >git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/tracecompass/org.eclipse.tracecompass > >refs/changes/00/36200/3 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD > > Just a quick note, this branch is now merged to master. So anyone who pulls > the code from the master branch at > git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/tracecompass/org.eclipse.tracecompass.git > should be able to load perf-CTF traces in the viewer. The trace type is now > called "Common Trace Format -> Linux Kernel Trace" and should support both > LTTng kernel and perf traces in CTF format (although auto-detection should > work in most cases). > > This was based on the most recent file format I was aware of, we will update > it accordingly if required. > > Testing welcome!
hi, any other way besides compiling eclipse to test this? For pure mortals with Fedora eclipse rpm.. ;-)
or any instructions for the compilation.. I actually haven't checked yet
thanks, jirka
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