From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
robert.richter@amd.com, ming.m.lin@intel.com,
andi@firstfloor.org, asharma@fb.com, vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu,
khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com, dsahern@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 13/18] perf: add support for taken branch sampling to perf report
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:11:32 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120223181132.GB3571@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPqkBT39C6zaKWGoHrRjqWE2P433NF-gYCYoa=JkJnGzMVjMQ@mail.gmail.com>
Em Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 05:53:53PM +0100, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> Ok, so I looked at that today. Adding the feature bit is trivial.
> But what's not easy is to get to the feature bit in perf report
> by the time we need it. Very quickly after parsing the options,
> we setup a bunch of things such as browser mode, sorting
> order based on the -b option. But to get to the feature bit, we
> would need to wait until after the session is created in
> __cmd_report() which is way later.
>
> So we either hoist perf_session__new() very early, i.e., as soon
> as we have the filename or we write yet another parse_header()
> function just to get to the feature bits. I would rather choose the
> first option. But none is really pretty...
>
> Arnaldo, any better idea?
Humm, lemme see...
By the time we need it is when we do setup_sorting, right? Perhaps we
can delay that till after we do perf_session__new and thus have read the
headers...
/me looks at the code.
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 22:20 [PATCH v6 00/18] perf: add support for sampling taken branches Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:20 ` [PATCH v6 01/18] perf: add generic taken branch sampling support Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:19 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf: Add " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:20 ` [PATCH v6 02/18] perf: add Intel LBR MSR definitions Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:20 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf/x86: Add " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:20 ` [PATCH v6 03/18] perf: add Intel X86 LBR sharing logic Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:21 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf/x86: Add Intel " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:20 ` [PATCH v6 04/18] perf: sync branch stack sampling with X86 precise_sampling Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:21 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf/x86: Sync branch stack sampling with precise_sampling tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:20 ` [PATCH v6 05/18] perf: add Intel X86 LBR mappings for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH filters Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:22 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf/x86: Add Intel " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:20 ` [PATCH v6 06/18] perf: disable LBR support for older Intel Atom processors Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:23 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf/x86: Disable " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:20 ` [PATCH v6 07/18] perf: implement PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH for Intel X86 Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:24 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf/x86: Implement PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH for Intel CPUs tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:20 ` [PATCH v6 08/18] perf: add LBR software filter support for Intel X86 Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:25 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:20 ` [PATCH v6 09/18] perf: disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:26 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf: Disable " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:21 ` [PATCH v6 10/18] perf: add hook to flush branch_stack on context switch Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:26 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf: Add callback " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:21 ` [PATCH v6 11/18] perf: add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:27 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf tools: Add " tip-bot for Roberto Agostino Vitillo
2012-02-09 22:21 ` [PATCH v6 12/18] perf: add support for sampling taken branch to perf record Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:28 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch tip-bot for Roberto Agostino Vitillo
2012-02-09 22:21 ` [PATCH v6 13/18] perf: add support for taken branch sampling to perf report Stephane Eranian
2012-02-14 21:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-02-22 11:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-22 16:18 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-02-23 9:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 16:53 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-02-23 18:11 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2012-02-23 20:48 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:29 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling tip-bot for Roberto Agostino Vitillo
2012-02-09 22:21 ` [PATCH v6 14/18] perf: fix endianness detection in perf.data Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:32 ` David Ahern
2012-02-09 22:21 ` [PATCH v6 15/18] perf: add ABI reference sizes Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:30 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf: Add " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:21 ` [PATCH v6 16/18] perf: enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:39 ` David Ahern
2012-02-09 22:41 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:46 ` David Ahern
2012-02-09 22:49 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-02-10 0:37 ` David Ahern
2012-03-09 13:30 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf tools: Enable reading of perf. data " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:21 ` [PATCH v6 17/18] perf: fix bug print_event_desc() Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:31 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc() tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-09 22:21 ` [PATCH v6 18/18] perf: make perf able to read file from older ABIs Stephane Eranian
2012-03-09 13:32 ` [tip:perf/hw-branch-sampling] perf tools: Make perf able to read files " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2012-02-27 7:50 ` [PATCH v6 00/18] perf: add support for sampling taken branches Anshuman Khandual
2012-02-27 8:45 ` Stephane Eranian
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