Re: [PATCH v8 05/18] perf ftrace: show trace column header

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Aug 14 2020 - 07:57:36 EST


Em Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 08:56:55AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 10:31:28AM +0800, Changbin Du escreveu:
> > This makes perf-ftrace display column header before printing trace.
> >
> > $ sudo perf ftrace
> > # tracer: function
> > #
> > # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0 #P:8
> > #
> > # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
> > # | | | | |
> > <...>-9246 [006] 10726.262760: mutex_unlock <-rb_simple_write
> > <...>-9246 [006] 10726.262764: __fsnotify_parent <-vfs_write
> > <...>-9246 [006] 10726.262765: fsnotify <-vfs_write
> > <...>-9246 [006] 10726.262766: __sb_end_write <-vfs_write
> > <...>-9246 [006] 10726.262767: fpregs_assert_state_consistent <-do_syscall_64
>
> We have:
>
> # perf report -h header
>
> Usage: perf report [<options>]
>
> --header Show data header.
> --header-only Show only data header.
>
> #
>
> So perhaps we should have those as well, in the 'ftrace' case one would
> perhaps want to use --no-header, for instance, to do some scripting
> parsing just the trace lines.

This as well can be done after I process this series, to make progress.

Applied.

- Arnaldo