From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753733Ab2FSBOY (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:14:24 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:37575 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753356Ab2FSBOX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:14:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4FDFD26A.4040702@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:14:18 -0600 From: David Ahern User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Namhyung Kim CC: rostedt@goodmis.org, acme@ghostprotocols.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, weisbec@gmail.com, namhyung.kim@lge.com, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] libtraceevent/perf: Add support for trace-cmd plugins References: <1339695333-64591-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> <87lijlhv9v.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> <4FDF3D5C.1030209@gmail.com> <87d34wi0y3.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> In-Reply-To: <87d34wi0y3.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/18/12 6:45 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote: >> kvm tracepoints are fine; perf just doesn't handle their (advanced) >> formatting. >> > > Yeah, I think it's a libtraceevent's issue, not perf's. Please see > below: Well documented problem (search perf kvm bad op token. In April 2011 (pre first libparseevent patch) I mentioned a desire/wish/dream for perf to be able to use trace-cmd's plugins to fix this: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1104.1/00411.html Maybe this dream can come true... ;-) David