linux.git/tools/perf/builtin-data.c, branch v7.2-rc2

perf data ctf: replace libbabeltrace with babeltrace2-ctf-writer

2026-06-04T20:34:52+00:00

The 1.x branch of Babeltrace has been superseded by 2.x in 2020 and has
been unmaintained since 2022, efforts have started to remove it from
popular distributions.

Babeltrace 2.x offers a very similar 'ctf-writer' library that can be used
with minimal changes for the '--to-ctf' feature and has been packaged
since Debian 11 and Fedora 32.

This patch replaces the 'libbabeltrace' build feature with
'babeltrace2-ctf-writer' using pkgconfig detection, adjusts the naming of
the public headers and applies minor API cleanups.

There is no changes to the output ctf traces, the ctf-writer API still
implements version 1.8 of the CTF specification that can be read by
either Babeltrace 1 / 2 or any CTF compliant reader.

Also remove some ifdefs in the cli option parsing to allow printing the
helpful error message with '--to-ctf' when built without babeltrace2.

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Derek Foreman 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Make more global variables static

2026-04-09T02:21:04+00:00

`make check` will run sparse on the perf code base. A frequent warning
is "warning: symbol '...' was not declared. Should it be static?" Go
through and make global definitions without declarations static.

In some cases it is deliberate due to dlsym accessing the symbol, this
change doesn't clean up the missing declarations for perf test suites.

Sometimes things can opportunistically be made const.

Making somethings static exposed unused functions warnings, so
restructuring of ifdefs was necessary for that.

These changes reduce the size of the perf binary by 568 bytes.

Committer notes:

Refreshed the patch, the original one fell thru the cracks, updated the
size reduction.

Remove the trace-event-scripting.c changes, break the build, noticed
with container builds and with sashiko:

  https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260401215306.2152898-1-acme%40kernel.org

Also make two variables static to address another sashiko review
comment:

  https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260402001740.2220481-1-acme%40kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Acked-by: Ankur Arora 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Athira Rajeev 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Howard Chu 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Yujie Liu 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf data: Allow filtering conversion by time range

2026-01-06T22:20:02+00:00

This adds a feature to allow restricting the range of converted samples
with a range string like perf-script and perf-report --time.

Committer testing:

Put a probe on the ICMP receive path handling broadcast packets:

  # perf probe icmp_rcv:64
  Added new event:
    probe:icmp_rcv_L64   (on icmp_rcv:64)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

  	perf record -e probe:icmp_rcv_L64 -aR sleep 1

  # perf record -e probe:icmp_rcv_L64 ping -c 10 -b 127.255.255.255
  WARNING: pinging broadcast address
  PING 127.255.255.255 (127.255.255.255) 56(84) bytes of data.
  ^C
  --- 127.255.255.255 ping statistics ---
  10 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 9217ms

  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.034 MB perf.data (10 samples) ]

  # perf script
              ping   52785 [009]  5847.300394: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
              ping   52785 [009]  5848.325018: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
              ping   52785 [009]  5849.349007: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
              ping   52785 [009]  5850.372979: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
              ping   52785 [009]  5851.396988: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
              ping   52785 [009]  5852.420954: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
              ping   52785 [009]  5853.444934: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
              ping   52785 [009]  5854.468926: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
              ping   52785 [009]  5855.492914: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
              ping   52785 [009]  5856.516883: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
  #

Now get some slices using perf script:

  # perf script --time 40%
            ping   52785 [009]  5847.300394: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
            ping   52785 [009]  5848.325018: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
            ping   52785 [009]  5849.349007: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
            ping   52785 [009]  5850.372979: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
  # perf script --time 40%-60%
            ping   52785 [009]  5851.396988: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
            ping   52785 [009]  5852.420954: probe:icmp_rcv_L64: (ffffffffaadb337e)
  #

And finally use this new feature:

  # perf data convert --to-json out.json --time 0%-10%
  [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into JSON data 'out.json' ]
  [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.001 MB (1 samples) ]
  [ perf data convert: Skipped 9 samples ]
  # cat out.json
  {
  	"linux-perf-json-version": 1,
  	"headers": {
  		"header-version": 1,
  		"captured-on": "2026-01-06T22:26:40Z",
  		"data-offset": 520,
  		"data-size": 34648,
  		"feat-offset": 35168,
  		"hostname": "number",
  		"os-release": "6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64",
  		"arch": "x86_64",
  		"cpu-desc": "AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor",
  		"cpuid": "AuthenticAMD,26,68,0",
  		"nrcpus-online": 32,
  		"nrcpus-avail": 32,
  		"perf-version": "6.19.rc4.gf4c270685d3d",
  		"cmdline": [
  			"/home/acme/bin/perf"
  		]
  	},
  	"samples": [
  		{
  			"timestamp": 5847300394661,
  			"pid": 52785,
  			"tid": 52785,
  			"cpu": 9,
  			"comm": "ping",
  			"callchain": [
  				{
  					"ip": "0xffffffffaadb337f",
  					"symbol": "icmp_rcv",
  					"dso": "[kernel.kallsyms]"
  				}
  			],
  			"__probe_ip": "ffffffffaadb337e"
  		}
  	]
  }
  #

Signed-off-by: Derek Foreman 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf util: Move input_name to util

2023-04-10T22:21:31+00:00

'input_name' is the name of the input perf.data file, it is used by data
convert and ui code. Move it to util to make it more consistent with
other global state.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Athira Rajeev 
Cc: Chengdong Li 
Cc: Denis Nikitin 
Cc: Florian Fischer 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Garry 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Martin Liška 
Cc: Mathieu Poirier 
Cc: Mike Leach 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Raul Silvera 
Cc: Ravi Bangoria 
Cc: Rob Herring 
Cc: Sean Christopherson 
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Xing Zhengjun 
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230410162511.3055900-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf build: Use libtraceevent from the system

2022-12-14T14:16:12+00:00

Remove the LIBTRACEEVENT_DYNAMIC and LIBTRACEFS_DYNAMIC make command
line variables.

If libtraceevent isn't installed or NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 is passed to the
build, don't compile in libtraceevent and libtracefs support.

This also disables CONFIG_TRACE that controls "perf trace".

CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT is used to control enablement in Build/Makefiles,
HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is used in C code.

Without HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT tracepoints are disabled and as such the
commands kmem, kwork, lock, sched and timechart are removed.  The
majority of commands continue to work including "perf test".

Committer notes:

Fixed up a tools/perf/util/Build reject and added:

  #include 

to tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c.

Committer testing:

  $ rpm -qi libtraceevent-devel
  Name        : libtraceevent-devel
  Version     : 1.5.3
  Release     : 2.fc36
  Architecture: x86_64
  Install Date: Mon 25 Jul 2022 03:20:19 PM -03
  Group       : Unspecified
  Size        : 27728
  License     : LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+
  Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Fri 15 Apr 2022 02:11:58 PM -03, Key ID 999f7cbf38ab71f4
  Source RPM  : libtraceevent-1.5.3-2.fc36.src.rpm
  Build Date  : Fri 15 Apr 2022 10:57:01 AM -03
  Build Host  : buildvm-x86-05.iad2.fedoraproject.org
  Packager    : Fedora Project
  Vendor      : Fedora Project
  URL         : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/
  Bug URL     : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/libtraceevent
  Summary     : Development headers of libtraceevent
  Description :
  Development headers of libtraceevent-libs
  $

Default build:

  $ ldd ~/bin/perf | grep tracee
  	libtraceevent.so.1 => /lib64/libtraceevent.so.1 (0x00007f1dcaf8f000)
  $

  # perf trace -e sched:* --max-events 10
       0.000 migration/0/17 sched:sched_migrate_task(comm: "", pid: 1603763 (perf), prio: 120, dest_cpu: 1)
       0.005 migration/0/17 sched:sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu: 1)
       0.011 migration/0/17 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_pid: 17 (migration/0), prev_state: 1, next_comm: "", next_prio: 120)
       1.173 :0/0 sched:sched_wakeup(comm: "", pid: 3138 (gnome-terminal-), prio: 120)
       1.180 :0/0 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_prio: 120, next_comm: "", next_pid: 3138 (gnome-terminal-), next_prio: 120)
       0.156 migration/1/21 sched:sched_migrate_task(comm: "", pid: 1603763 (perf), prio: 120, orig_cpu: 1, dest_cpu: 2)
       0.160 migration/1/21 sched:sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu: 2)
       0.166 migration/1/21 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_pid: 21 (migration/1), prev_state: 1, next_comm: "", next_prio: 120)
       1.183 :0/0 sched:sched_wakeup(comm: "", pid: 1602985 (kworker/u16:0-f), prio: 120, target_cpu: 1)
       1.186 :0/0 sched:sched_switch(prev_comm: "", prev_prio: 120, next_comm: "", next_pid: 1602985 (kworker/u16:0-f), next_prio: 120)
  #

Had to tweak tools/perf/util/setup.py to make sure the python binding
shared object links with libtraceevent if -DHAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is
present in CFLAGS.

Building with NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 uncovered some more build failures:

- Make building of data-convert-bt.c to CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT=y

- perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += scripts/

- bpf_kwork.o needs also to be dependent on CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT=y

- The python binding needed some fixups and util/trace-event.c can't be
  built and linked with the python binding shared object, so remove it
  in tools/perf/util/setup.py and exclude it from the list of
  dependencies in the python/perf.so Makefile.perf target.

Building without libtraceevent-devel installed uncovered more build
failures:

- The python binding tools/perf/util/python.c was assuming that
  traceevent/parse-events.h was always available, which was the case
  when we defaulted to using the in-kernel tools/lib/traceevent/ files,
  now we need to enclose it under ifdef HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT, just like
  the other parts of it that deal with tracepoints.

- We have to ifdef the rules in the Build files with
  CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT=y to build builtin-trace.c and
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/ as we only ifdef setting CONFIG_TRACE=y when
  setting NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1 in the make command line, not when we don't
  detect libtraceevent-devel installed in the system. Simplification here
  to avoid these two ways of disabling builtin-trace.c and not having
  CONFIG_TRACE=y when libtraceevent-devel isn't installed is the clean
  way.

From Athira:


tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build
-perf-y += kvm-stat.o
+perf-$(CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT) += kvm-stat.o


Then, ditto for arm64 and s390, detected by container cross build tests.

- s/390 uses test__checkevent_tracepoint() that is now only available if
  HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT is defined, enclose the callsite with ifder HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT.

Also from Athira:


With this change, I could successfully compile in these environment:
- Without libtraceevent-devel installed
- With libtraceevent-devel installed
- With “make NO_LIBTRACEEVENT=1”


Then, finally rename CONFIG_TRACEEVENT to CONFIG_LIBTRACEEVENT for
consistency with other libraries detected in tools/perf/.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Tested-by: Athira Rajeev 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221205225940.3079667-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf data: Don't mention --to-ctf if it's not supported

2022-02-23T00:23:08+00:00

The option `--to-ctf` is only available when perf has libbabeltrace
support. Hence, on error, we shouldn't state that user must include
`--to-ctf` unless it's supported.

The only user-visible change for this commit is that when `perf` is not
configured to support libbabeltrace, the user is only prompted to
provide the `--to-json` option instead of bothe `--to-json` and
`--to-ctf`.

Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220220113952.138280-1-ma.mandourr@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf data: Correct -h output

2021-08-31T18:12:00+00:00

There is currently only 1 'perf data' command, but supporting extra
commands was breaking the help output. Simplify for now so that the help
output is correct.

Before:
$ perf data -h

 Usage: perf data []  []

$ perf data
Usage:
        perf data []  []

        Available commands:
         convert        - converts data file between formats

After:
$ perf data

 Usage: perf data convert []

    -f, --force           don't complain, do it
    -i, --input     input file name
    -v, --verbose         be more verbose
        --all             Convert all events
        --to-ctf ...      Convert to CTF format
        --to-json ...     Convert to JSON format
        --tod             Convert time to wall clock time

$ perf data -h

 Usage: perf data convert []

    -f, --force           don't complain, do it
    -i, --input     input file name
    -v, --verbose         be more verbose
        --all             Convert all events
        --to-ctf ...      Convert to CTF format
        --to-json ...     Convert to JSON format
        --tod             Convert time to wall clock time

Signed-off-by: Joshua Martinez 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210824205829.52822-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf data: Add JSON export

2021-04-29T13:30:58+00:00

This adds a feature to export perf data to JSON.

The resolved symbols are exported into the JSON so that external tools
don't need to load the dsos themselves (or even have access to them at
all.) This makes it easy to load and analyze perf data with standalone
tools where direct perf or libbabeltrace integration is impractical.

The exporter uses a minimal inline JSON encoding without any external
dependencies. Currently it only outputs some headers and sample metadata
but it's easily extensible.

Use it like this:

  $ perf data convert --to-json out.json

Committer notes:

Fixup a __printf() bug that broke the build:

  util/data-convert-json.c:103:11: error: expected ‘)’ before numeric constant
    103 | __(printf, 5, 6)
        |           ^~
        |           )
  util/data-convert-json.c: In function ‘output_sample_callchain_entry’:
  util/data-convert-json.c:124:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘output_json_key_format’; did you mean ‘output_json_format’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
    124 |  output_json_key_format(out, false, 5, "ip", "\"0x%" PRIx64 "\"", ip);
        |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        |  output_json_format

Also had to add this patch to fix errors reported by various versions of
clang:

  -       if (al && al->sym && al->sym->name && strlen(al->sym->name) > 0) {
  +       if (al && al->sym && al->sym->namelen) {

al->sym->name is a zero sized array, to avoid one extra alloc in the
symbol__new() constructor, sym->namelen carries its strlen.

Committer testing:

  $ ls -la out.json
  ls: cannot access 'out.json': No such file or directory
  $ perf record sleep 0.1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data (8 samples) ]
  $ perf report --stats | grep -w SAMPLE
            SAMPLE events:          8
  $ perf data convert --to-json out.json
  [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into JSON data 'out.json' ]
  [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.002 MB (8 samples) ]
  $ ls -la out.json
  -rw-rw-r--. 1 acme acme 2017 Apr 26 17:29 out.json
  $ cat out.json
  {
  	"linux-perf-json-version": 1,
  	"headers": {
  		"header-version": 1,
  		"captured-on": "2021-04-26T20:28:57Z",
  		"data-offset": 432,
  		"data-size": 1016,
  		"feat-offset": 1448,
  		"hostname": "five",
  		"os-release": "5.11.14-200.fc33.x86_64",
  		"arch": "x86_64",
  		"cpu-desc": "AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor",
  		"cpuid": "AuthenticAMD,23,113,0",
  		"nrcpus-online": 24,
  		"nrcpus-avail": 24,
  		"perf-version": "5.12.gee134f3189bd",
  		"cmdline": [
  			"/home/acme/bin/perf",
  			"record",
  			"sleep",
  			"0.1"
  		]
  	},
  	"samples": [
  		{
  			"timestamp": 170517539043684,
  			"pid": 375844,
  			"tid": 375844,
  			"comm": "sleep",
  			"callchain": [
  				{
  					"ip": "0xffffffffa6268827"
  				}
  			]
  		},
  		{
  			"timestamp": 170517539048443,
  			"pid": 375844,
  			"tid": 375844,
  			"comm": "sleep",
  			"callchain": [
  				{
  					"ip": "0xffffffffa661359d"
  				}
  			]
  		},
  		{
  			"timestamp": 170517539051018,
  			"pid": 375844,
  			"tid": 375844,
  			"comm": "sleep",
  			"callchain": [
  				{
  					"ip": "0xffffffffa6311e18"
  				}
  			]
  		},
  		{
  			"timestamp": 170517539053652,
  			"pid": 375844,
  			"tid": 375844,
  			"comm": "sleep",
  			"callchain": [
  				{
  					"ip": "0x7fdb77b4812b",
  					"symbol": "_dl_start",
  					"dso": "ld-2.32.so"
  				}
  			]
  		},
  		{
  			"timestamp": 170517539055306,
  			"pid": 375844,
  			"tid": 375844,
  			"comm": "sleep",
  			"callchain": [
  				{
  					"ip": "0xffffffffa6269286"
  				}
  			]
  		},
  		{
  			"timestamp": 170517539057590,
  			"pid": 375844,
  			"tid": 375844,
  			"comm": "sleep",
  			"callchain": [
  				{
  					"ip": "0xffffffffa62abd8b"
  				}
  			]
  		},
  		{
  			"timestamp": 170517539067559,
  			"pid": 375844,
  			"tid": 375844,
  			"comm": "sleep",
  			"callchain": [
  				{
  					"ip": "0x7fdb77b5e9e9",
  					"symbol": "__GI___tunables_init",
  					"dso": "ld-2.32.so"
  				}
  			]
  		},
  		{
  			"timestamp": 170517539282452,
  			"pid": 375844,
  			"tid": 375844,
  			"comm": "sleep",
  			"callchain": [
  				{
  					"ip": "0x7fdb779978d2",
  					"symbol": "getenv",
  					"dso": "libc-2.32.so"
  				}
  			]
  		}
  	]
  }
  $

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Fraser 
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Changbin Du 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Tan Xiaojun 
Cc: Ulrich Czekalla 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3884969f-804d-2f53-c648-e2b0bd85edff@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf data: Add support to store time of day in CTF data conversion

2020-08-06T12:43:37+00:00

Adad support to convert and store time of day in CTF data conversion for
'perf data convert' subcommand.

The perf.data used for conversion needs to have clock data information -
must be recorded with -k/--clockid option).

New --tod option is added to 'perf data convert' subcommand to convert
data with timestamps converted to wall clock time.

Record data with clockid set:

  # perf record -k CLOCK_MONOTONIC kill
  kill: not enough arguments
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.033 MB perf.data (8 samples) ]

Convert data with TOD timestamps:

  # perf data convert --tod --to-ctf ./ctf
  [ perf data convert: Converted 'perf.data' into CTF data './ctf' ]
  [ perf data convert: Converted and wrote 0.000 MB (8 samples) ]

Display data in perf script:

  # perf script -F+tod --ns
            perf 262150 2020-07-13 18:38:50.097678523 153633.958246159:          1 cycles: ...
            perf 262150 2020-07-13 18:38:50.097682941 153633.958250577:          1 cycles: ...
            perf 262150 2020-07-13 18:38:50.097684997 153633.958252633:          7 cycles: ...
  ...

Display data in babeltrace:

  # babeltrace --clock-date  ./ctf
  [2020-07-13 18:38:50.097678523] (+?.?????????) cycles: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFF ...
  [2020-07-13 18:38:50.097682941] (+0.000004418) cycles: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFF ...
  [2020-07-13 18:38:50.097684997] (+0.000002056) cycles: { cpu_id = 0 }, { perf_ip = 0xFFF ...
  ...

It's available only for recording with clockid specified, because it's
the only case where we can get reference time to wallclock time. It's
can't do that with perf clock yet.

Error is display if you want to use --tod on data without clockid
specified:

  # perf data convert --tod --to-ctf ./ctf
  Can't provide --tod time, missing clock data. Please record with -k/--clockid option.
  Failed to setup CTF writer.
  Error during conversion setup.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Geneviève Bastien 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Jeremie Galarneau 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Wang Nan 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200805093444.314999-6-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf debug: Remove needless include directives from debug.h

2019-08-31T22:10:19+00:00

All we need there is a forward declaration for 'union perf_event', so
remove it from there and add missing header directives in places using
things from this indirect include.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7ftk0ztstqub1tirjj8o8xbl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo