[PATCH v5 0/6] tracing/hist: Add percentage histogram suffixes

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
Date: Sun Sep 04 2022 - 00:12:52 EST


Hi,

Here is the 5th version of .percent and .graph suffixes for histogram
trigger to show the value in percentage and in bar-graph respectively.
The previous version is here;

https://lore.kernel.org/all/166157298537.348924.2537162090505397377.stgit@devnote2

This version updated the last patch to add "nohitcount" option for
supressing display of hitcount according to Tom's suggestion[5/6],
fix README file[4/6], and update the histogram document[6/6].

This will help us to check the trend of the histogram instantly
without any post processing tool.

Here shows an example of the percentage and the bar graph of
the runtime of the running tasks without raw hitcount field.

# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# echo hist:keys=pid:vals=hitcount.percent,hitcount.graph:sort=pid:NOHC > \
events/sched/sched_stat_runtime/trigger
# sleep 10
# cat events/sched/sched_stat_runtime/hist
# event histogram
#
# trigger info: hist:keys=pid:vals=hitcount.percent,hitcount.graph:sort=pid:size=2048:nohitcount [active]
#

{ pid: 14 } hitcount (%): 6.91 hitcount: ##
{ pid: 16 } hitcount (%): 1.13 hitcount:
{ pid: 57 } hitcount (%): 6.99 hitcount: ##
{ pid: 61 } hitcount (%): 55.28 hitcount: ####################
{ pid: 67 } hitcount (%): 5.52 hitcount: ##
{ pid: 69 } hitcount (%): 20.08 hitcount: #######
{ pid: 71 } hitcount (%): 0.40 hitcount:
{ pid: 77 } hitcount (%): 0.97 hitcount:
{ pid: 78 } hitcount (%): 0.56 hitcount:
{ pid: 145 } hitcount (%): 1.13 hitcount:
{ pid: 153 } hitcount (%): 0.48 hitcount:
{ pid: 154 } hitcount (%): 0.48 hitcount:

Totals:
Hits: 1230
Entries: 12
Dropped: 0


With the NOHC (or nohitcount) option, the histogram will skip
display of raw hitcount, but it will allow to display percent
and graph of hitcount.

Trigger Result
val=runtime -> Show hitcount and runtime
val=runtime:NOHC -> Show runtime
val=hitcount:NOHC -> Error
(noval) -> show hitcount
(noval):NOHC -> Error
val=hitcount.parcent -> show hitcount and hitcount%
val=hitcount.parcent:NOHC -> show hitcount%

Thank you,

---

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (5):
tracing: Fix to check event_mutex is held while accessing trigger list
tracing: Add .percent suffix option to histogram values
tracing: Add .graph suffix option to histogram value
tracing: Add nohitcount option for suppressing display of raw hitcount
tracing: docs: Update histogram doc for .percent/.graph and 'nohitcount'

Tom Zanussi (1):
tracing: Allow multiple hitcount values in histograms


Documentation/trace/histogram.rst | 10 ++
kernel/trace/trace.c | 7 +
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 3 -
4 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>