Re: [PATCH] perf timechart: remove lock_depth from trace_entry

[Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>]

> Se above, if before this patch the format_field info was obtained from
> the perf.data file, why should it now get it from the local machine?
Yes, sorry for confusion, I didn't know that we can obtain trace events
format from the perf.data. I hence have no concerns regarding your
implementation :-)

> Please try. There should be no limitations.
It does not work because lock_depth and common_pid are common fields,
while perf_evsel__field looks in non-common fields. And even if we find
lock_depth/common_pid common field we can't do field->next, because
common and non-common fields are not linked and ->next in the last common
field is NULL (this is what I got when I tried to use pevent_find_any_field
instead of pevent_find_field in perf_evsel__field).

I slightly modified timechart__set_payload_offset from you patch to look
for the first non-common field and use its offset, but it looks kinda ugly:

static int timechart__set_payload_offset(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
{
       struct perf_evsel *evsel = perf_evlist__first(evlist);
       struct format_field *field = evsel->tp_format->format.fields;

       if (!field)
               return -1;

       payload_offset = field->offset;
       return 0;
}

Maybe we can add some helper routine which returns first non-common
field, like:

struct format_field *perf_evsel__first_field(struct perf_evsel *evsel, const char *name)
{
	return evsel->tp_format->format.fields;
}

and call it in timechart__set_payload_offset?