Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] perf report: support record trace file decompression

From: Alexey Budankov
Date: Wed Feb 20 2019 - 09:48:13 EST



On 12.02.2019 16:09, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:25:00PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>>
>> PERF_RECORD_COMPRESSED records are decompressed from trace file into
>> a linked list of mmaped memory regions using streaming Zstandard API.
>> After that the regions are loaded fetching uncompressed events. When
>> dumping raw trace (e.g., perf report -D --header) file offsets of
>> events from compressed records are set to zero.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> - moved compression/decompression code to session layer
>
> could you please add some automated test for this?
>
> I think it could be part of the sample synthesize test
> or even new script test under tests/shell.. or anything
> else really.. just to see that we have some clean
> interface for this that we can test

This is possible. Let's complete the code review first.

Thanks,
Alexey

>
> thanks,
> jirka
>