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[09/10] trace-cruncher: Add synthetic event example

Message ID 20220124085625.92297-10-y.karadz@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Series trace-cruncher: Synthetic events | expand

Commit Message

Yordan Karadzhov Jan. 24, 2022, 8:56 a.m. UTC 
This is a very basic example, demonsting the usage of the new APIs
for kernel synth. events.

Signed-off-by: Yordan Karadzhov (VMware) <y.karadz@gmail.com>
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 examples/synth.py | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+"""
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
+
+Copyright 2021 VMware Inc, Yordan Karadzhov (VMware) <y.karadz@gmail.com>
+"""
+
+import tracecruncher.ftracepy as ft
+
+# Define a synthetic event that combines 'sched_waking' and 'sched_switch'.
+# A synth. event will be recorded every time a 'start' event (sched_waking)
+# is followed by an 'end' event (sched_switch) and both events have the same
+# value of the fields 'pid' and 'next_pid' (belong to the same process).
+synth = ft.synth(name='synth_wakeup',
+                 start_sys='sched', start_evt='sched_waking',
+                 end_sys='sched',   end_evt='sched_switch',
+                 start_match='pid', end_match='next_pid',
+                 match_name='pid')
+
+# Add to the synth. event two fields from the 'start' event. In the synth. event,
+# the field 'target_cpu' will be renamed to 'cpu'.
+synth.add_start_fields(fields=['target_cpu', 'prio'],
+                       names=['cpu', None])
+
+# Add to the synth. event one field from the 'end' event.
+synth.add_end_fields(fields=['next_prio'])
+
+# Add to the synth. event a field that measures the time-difference between
+# the 'start' and 'end' events. Use 'hd' time resolution (nanoseconds).
+synth.add_delta_T(hd=True)
+
+# Register the synth. event on the system.
+synth.register()
+
+inst = ft.create_instance()
+
+# Apply a filter and enable the synth. event.
+synth.set_filter(instance=inst, filter='prio<100')
+synth.enable(instance=inst)
+
+# Print the stream of trace events. "Ctrl+c" to stop tracing.
+ft.read_trace(instance=inst)