Re: [PATCHv4 00/57] perf stat: Add scripting support

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Tue Oct 20 2015 - 22:04:10 EST


Hi Jiri,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:40:35PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi,
> sending another version of stat scripting.
>
> v4 changes:
> - added attr update event for event's cpumask
> - forbig aggregation on task workloads
> - some minor reorders and changelog fixes
>
> v3 changes:
> - added attr update event to handle unit,scale,name for event
> it fixed the uncore_imc_1/cas_count_read/ record/report
> - perf report -D now displays stat related events
> - some minor and changelog fixes
>
> v2 changes:
> - rebased to latest Arnaldo's perf/core
> - patches 1 to 11 already merged in
> - added --per-core/--per-socket/-A options for perf stat report
> command to allow custom aggregation in stat report, please
> check new examples below
> - couple changelogs changes
>
> The initial attempt defined its own formula lang and allowed
> triggering user's script on the end of the stat command:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136742146322273&w=2
>
> This patchset abandons the idea of new formula language
> and rather adds support to:
> - store stat data into perf.data file
> - add python support to process stat events
>
> Basically it allows to store stat data into perf.data and
> post process it with python scripts in a similar way we
> do for sampling data.

Nice. I didn't review this patchset (yet) but I have a feature
request. :) It'd be great if we have 'perf stat diff' to compare two
(or more) files in some way.

Thanks,
Namhyung
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