Re: [RFC 00/47] perf stat: Add scripting support

Jiri Olsa
2015-07-26T13:51:16Z

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 04:43:08PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 02:31:20PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > hi,
> > sending RFC on another attempt for stat scripting.
> >
> > The initial attempt defined its own formula lang and allowed
> > triggering user's script on the end of the stat command:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136742146322273&w=2
> >
> > This patchset abandons the idea of new formula language
> > and rather adds support to:
> > - store stat data into perf.data file
> > - add python support to process stat events
> >
> > Basically it allows to store stat data into perf.data and
> > post process it with python scripts in a similar way we
> > do for sampling data.
>
> I suspect there is some overlap with Kan's patchkit to put
> uncore data into perf.data too.

hum, haven't seen this, was it posted already?

jirka