This is a partial revert of commit
7f1b588f20 ("trace: emit name <-> ID
mapping in simpletrace header"), which broke the SystemTap flight
recorder because event mapping records may not be present in the ring
buffer when the trace is analyzed. This means simpletrace.py
--no-header does not know the event ID mapping needed to pretty-print
the trace.
Instead of numbering events dynamically, use a static event ID mapping
as dictated by the event order in the trace-events-all file.
The simpletrace.py script also uses trace-events-all so the next patch
will fix the simpletrace.py --no-header option to take advantage of this
knowledge.
Cc: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170815084430.7128-2-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The simpletrace compatibility code for systemtap creates a
function and some global variables for mapping to event ID
numbers. We generate multiple -simpletrace.stp files though,
one per target and systemtap considers functions & variables
to be globally scoped, not per file. So if trying to use the
simpletrace compat probes, systemtap will complain:
# stap -e 'probe qemu.system.arm.simpletrace.visit_type_str { print( "hello")}'
semantic error: conflicting global variables: identifier 'event_name_to_id_map' at /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/qemu-aarch64-simpletrace.stp:3:8
source: global event_name_to_id_map
^
identifier 'event_name_to_id_map' at /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/qemu-system-arm-simpletrace.stp:3:8
source: global event_name_to_id_map
^
WARNING: cross-file global variable reference to identifier 'event_name_to_id_map' at /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/qemu-system-arm-simpletrace.stp:3:8 from: identifier 'event_name_to_id_map' at /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/qemu-aarch64-simpletrace.stp:8:21
source: if (!([name] in event_name_to_id_map)) {
^
WARNING: cross-file global variable reference to identifier 'event_next_id' at /usr/share/systemtap/tapset/qemu-system-arm-simpletrace.stp:4:8 from: identifier 'event_next_id' at :9:38
source: event_name_to_id_map[name] = event_next_id
^
We already have a string used to prefix probe names, so just
replace '.' with '_' to get a function / variable name prefix
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170728133657.5525-1-berrange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The declarations in the generated-tracers.h file are
assuming there's only ever going to be one instance
of this header, as they are not namespaced. When we
have one header per event group, if a single source
file needs to include multiple sets of trace events,
the symbols will all clash.
This change thus introduces a '--group NAME' arg to the
'tracetool' program. This will cause all the symbols in
the generated header files to be given a unique namespace.
If no group is given, the group name 'common' is used,
which is suitable for the current usage where there is
only one global trace-events file used for code generation.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Message-id: 1475588159-30598-21-git-send-email-berrange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Currently simpletrace assumes that events are given IDs
starting from 0, based on the order in which they appear
in the trace-events file, with no gaps. When the
trace-events file is split up, this assumption becomes
problematic.
To deal with this, extend the simpletrace format so that
it outputs a table of event name <-> ID mappings. That
will allow QEMU to assign arbitrary IDs to events without
breaking simpletrace parsing.
The v3 simple trace format was
FILE HEADER
EVENT TRACE RECORD 0
EVENT TRACE RECORD 1
...
EVENT TRACE RECORD N
The v4 simple trace format is now
FILE HEADER
EVENT MAPPING RECORD 0
EVENT MAPPING RECORD 1
...
EVENT MAPPING RECORD M
EVENT TRACE RECORD RECORD 0
EVENT TRACE RECORD RECORD 1
...
EVENT TRACE RECORD N
Although this shows all the mapping records being emitted
upfront, this is not required by the format. While the main
simpletrace backend will emit all mappings at startup,
the systemtap simpletrace.stp script will emit the mappings
at first use. eg
FILE HEADER
...
EVENT MAPPING RECORD 0
EVENT TRACE RECORD RECORD 0
EVENT TRACE RECORD RECORD 1
EVENT MAPPING RECORD 1
EVENT TRACE RECORD RECORD 2
...
EVENT TRACE RECORD N
This is more space efficient given that most trace records
only include a subset of events.
In modifying the systemtap simpletrace code, a 'begin' probe
was added to emit the trace event header, so you no longer
need to add '--no-header' when running simpletrace.py for
systemtap generated trace files.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1475588159-30598-12-git-send-email-berrange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This new tracetool "format" generates a SystemTap .stp file that outputs
simpletrace binary trace data.
In contrast to simpletrace or ftrace, SystemTap does not define its own
trace format. All output from SystemTap is generated by .stp files.
This patch lets us generate a .stp file that outputs in the simpletrace
binary format.
This makes it possible to reuse simpletrace.py to analyze traces
recorded using SystemTap. The simpletrace binary format is especially
useful for long-running traces like flight-recorder mode where string
formatting can be expensive.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
