linux/tools
Chris Phlipot 2c15f5eb04 perf script: Expose usage of the callchain db export via the python api
This change allows python scripts to be able to utilize the recent
changes to the db export api allowing the export of call_paths derived
from sampled callchains. These call paths are also now associated with
the samples from which they were derived.

- This feature is enabled by setting "perf_db_export_callchains" to true

- When enabled, samples that have callchain information will have the
  callchains exported via call_path_table

- The call_path_id field is added to sample_table to enable association of
  samples with the corresponding callchain stored in the call paths
  table. A call_path_id of 0 will be exported if there is no
  corresponding callchain.

- When "perf_db_export_callchains" and "perf_db_export_calls" are both
  set to True, the call path root data structure will be shared. This
  prevents duplicating of data and call path ids that would result from
  building two separate call path trees in memory.

- The call_return_processor structure definition was relocated to the header
  file to make its contents visible to db-export.c. This enables the
  sharing of call path trees between the two features, as mentioned
  above.

This change is visible to python scripts using the python db export api.

The change is backwards compatible with scripts written against the
previous API, assuming that the scripts model the sample_table function
after the one in export-to-postgresql.py script by allowing for
additional arguments to be added in the future. ie. using *x as the
final argument of the sample_table function.

Signed-off-by: Chris Phlipot <cphlipot0@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461831551-12213-6-git-send-email-cphlipot0@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-05-06 13:00:54 -03:00
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arch
build bpf tools: Fix syscall argument 2016-04-28 09:58:57 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio gpio: present the consumer of a line to userspace 2016-02-25 21:07:23 +01:00
hv tools/hv: Use include/uapi with __EXPORTED_HEADERS__ 2016-02-07 21:34:12 -08:00
iio
include Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-24 10:02:14 -07:00
laptop/freefall
lguest tools/lguest: Clean up include dir 2015-08-26 06:12:35 +02:00
lib tools lib api fs: Add helper to read string from procfs file 2016-04-26 13:15:00 -03:00
net tools, bpf_asm: simplify parser rule for BPF extensions 2016-02-22 13:29:42 -05:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Detect falling through to the next function 2016-04-16 11:14:17 +02:00
perf perf script: Expose usage of the callchain db export via the python api 2016-05-06 13:00:54 -03:00
power Merge branches 'pm-core', 'powercap' and 'pm-tools' 2016-04-08 21:46:56 +02:00
scripts tools: Move utilities.mak from perf to tools/scripts/ 2016-03-18 13:57:20 -03:00
spi spi: spidev_test: Fix typo in error message 2015-12-08 17:58:56 +00:00
testing soreuseport: test mixed v4/v6 sockets 2016-04-14 21:14:04 -04:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: use pkg-config also for CFLAGS 2015-10-10 11:32:31 +08:00
time
usb usb: patches for v4.4 merge window 2015-10-22 17:19:33 -07:00
virtio virtio_ring: Support DMA APIs 2016-03-02 17:01:57 +02:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: avoid memset() in walk_pfn() when count == 1 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
Makefile tools build: Fix perf_clean target 2016-04-25 17:59:36 -03:00