Re: [PATCH] Provide additional sample information to Python scripts

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Mar 07 2014 - 09:19:14 EST


Em Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:43:24AM +0100, Joseph Schuchart escreveu:
> Good morning,
>
> We have developed a patch for the perf Python scripting interface to
> provide additional information about the pid, tid, and cpu of generic
> events as well as information about the call-stack and resolved symbol
> names. This provides scripts with a greater level of detail. The
> mentioned information is already available to the scripting engine and
> just has to be handed down. This is done by the attached patch. The
> patch is based on Linux-3.13.3.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions on this.

Can you please resend, against the perf/core branch in
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git, and as an
attachement or making sure that the patch is not mangled?

- Arnaldo

> Thanks
> Joseph
> --
> Dipl. Inf. Joseph Schuchart
> Computer Scientist
>
> Technische Universität Dresden
> Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH)
> 01062 Dresden, Germany
>
> Phone: +49 351 463-36494
> Fax: +49 351 463-3773
> E-Mail: joseph.schuchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Perf: Provide sample information and call-chain to Python script
>
> Provide additional sample information on generic events to Python
> scripts, including pid, tid, and cpu for which the event was recorded.
> Additionally, provide the call-stack recorded at each event with
> resolved symbols. At the moment, the pointer to the sample struct
> is passed to scripts, which seems to be of little use. The patch
> puts this information in dictionaries for easy access by Python
> scripts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Schuchart <joseph.schuchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Thomas Ilsche <thomas.ilsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static void python_process_general_event
> struct thread *thread,
> struct addr_location *al)
> {
> - PyObject *handler, *retval, *t, *dict;
> + PyObject *handler, *retval, *t, *dict, *dict_sample;
> static char handler_name[64];
> unsigned n = 0;
>
> @@ -375,6 +375,10 @@ static void python_process_general_event
> if (!dict)
> Py_FatalError("couldn't create Python dictionary");
>
> + dict_sample = PyDict_New();
> + if (!dict_sample)
> + Py_FatalError("couldn't create Python dictionary");
> +
> snprintf(handler_name, sizeof(handler_name), "%s", "process_event");
>
> handler = PyDict_GetItemString(main_dict, handler_name);
> @@ -384,8 +388,76 @@ static void python_process_general_event
> pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "ev_name", PyString_FromString(perf_evsel__name(evsel)));
> pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "attr", PyString_FromStringAndSize(
> (const char *)&evsel->attr, sizeof(evsel->attr)));
> - pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "sample", PyString_FromStringAndSize(
> - (const char *)sample, sizeof(*sample)));
> +
> + /* PID/TIDs are limited to 2^29, so we can safely use PyInt */
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict_sample, "pid", PyInt_FromLong(sample->pid));
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict_sample, "tid", PyInt_FromLong(sample->tid));
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict_sample, "cpu", PyInt_FromLong(sample->cpu));
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict_sample, "time", PyLong_FromUnsignedLongLong(sample->time));
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "sample", dict_sample);
> +
> + /* ip unwinding */
> +
> + if (symbol_conf.use_callchain && sample->callchain) {
> + PyObject *pylist;
> +
> + if (machine__resolve_callchain(machine, evsel, al->thread,
> + sample, NULL, NULL, PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) != 0) {
> + pr_err("Failed to resolve callchain. Skipping\n");
> + goto exit;
> + }
> + callchain_cursor_commit(&callchain_cursor);
> +
> + pylist = PyList_New(0);
> + if (!pylist)
> + Py_FatalError("couldn't create Python list");
> +
> + while (1) {
> + PyObject *pyelem;
> + struct callchain_cursor_node *node;
> + node = callchain_cursor_current(&callchain_cursor);
> + if (!node)
> + break;
> +
> + pyelem = PyDict_New();
> + if (!pyelem)
> + Py_FatalError("couldn't create Python dictionary");
> +
> +
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(pyelem, "ip", PyInt_FromLong(node->ip));
> +
> + if (node->sym) {
> + PyObject *pysym = PyDict_New();
> + if (!pysym)
> + Py_FatalError("couldn't create Python dictionary");
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(pysym, "start", PyInt_FromLong(node->sym->start));
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(pysym, "end", PyInt_FromLong(node->sym->end));
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(pysym, "binding", PyInt_FromLong(node->sym->binding));
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(pysym, "name", PyString_FromStringAndSize(node->sym->name, node->sym->namelen));
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(pyelem, "sym", pysym);
> + Py_DECREF(pysym);
> + }
> +
> + if (node->map) {
> + struct map *map = node->map;
> + const char *dsoname = "[unknown]";
> + if (map && map->dso && (map->dso->name || map->dso->long_name)) {
> + if (symbol_conf.show_kernel_path && map->dso->long_name)
> + dsoname = map->dso->long_name;
> + else if (map->dso->name)
> + dsoname = map->dso->name;
> + }
> + pydict_set_item_string_decref(pyelem, "dso", PyString_FromString(dsoname));
> + }
> +
> + callchain_cursor_advance(&callchain_cursor);
> + PyList_Append(pylist, pyelem);
> + Py_DECREF(pyelem);
> + }
> + PyDict_SetItemString(dict, "callstack", pylist);
> + Py_DECREF(pylist);
> + }
> +
> pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "raw_buf", PyString_FromStringAndSize(
> (const char *)sample->raw_data, sample->raw_size));
> pydict_set_item_string_decref(dict, "comm",
> @@ -407,6 +479,7 @@ static void python_process_general_event
> if (retval == NULL)
> handler_call_die(handler_name);
> exit:
> + Py_DECREF(dict_sample);
> Py_DECREF(dict);
> Py_DECREF(t);
> }



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