Re: [PATCH 4/6] perf script: dump software events too

[David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>]

On 03/01/2011 08:11 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> Why shouldn't it be designed to dump software events? It's called print_event().
> Its current version is rather something I would call "limited". But it
> was not designed
> to be limited.

That's because its origins are trace specific. Per last week's thread,
perf-script was perf-trace until Nov 2010. perf-script deals with
tracepoints.

> 
> Ideally, we should have print_tracepoint_event() in
> trace-event-parse.c, print_software_event()
> where you want, and have print_event() in builtin-script.c that wraps on those.


process_event does not take the event sample, it takes elements of it:

struct scripting_ops {
...
    void (*process_event) (int cpu, void *data, int size,
                   unsigned long long nsecs, char *comm);
...
};


David