Re: Reusable data analysis/parser library?

[Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>]

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On Thursday 27 December 2012 15:42:32 Milian Wolff wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I found [1] and [2] but not a reusable shared library which one could use to
> write custom analyzers for perf.data files. Are you still working on this
> or should one rather stick to parsing the output of "perf script"?
> 
> As a start I would like to integrate a parser into KCacheGrind to seamlessly
> open perf.data files with it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> [1]: https://openlab-mu-internal.web.cern.ch/openlab-mu-> internal/03_Documents/3_Technical_Documents/Technical_Reports/2011/Urs_Fassl
> er_report.pdf [2]:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.perf.user/974/match=kcachegrind

Ping, is there anything available which I can use to write a perf.data parser 
for KCacheGrind? This would be highly benefitial for many people using perf.

Otherwise, is there at least a solid documentation of the binary format which 
I might then use to write a custom external library?

Cheers
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de

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