Re: [tracecompass-dev] Accessing LTTng-ust cpu_id event field inside an

[aleix <arocanon@xxxxxx>]

Thank you Matthew and Geneviève, it works like a charm! :D

On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 10:16:48AM -0500, Geneviève Bastien wrote:
> Hi Aleix,
> 
> 
> Your message is totally appropriate and this is exactly what this list
> is for.
> 
> 
> Matthew said it all and I have not much to enhance the explanation, only
> maybe to prevent further questions in case you need it, but the context
> fields (vpid, vtid, etc) are accessed in XML with
> 
> 
> <stateAttribute type="eventField" value="context._vpid" />
> 
> Thanks you for highlighting the missing details of the documentation.
> 
> Out of curiosity, how did you get started with the XML analyses? Did you
> read the Trace Compass documentation, did you find an analysis lying
> around to copy-paste from? If so where? We'd like to improve the user
> experience of the custom XML analyses (getting started and doing more
> complex stuff) and knowing how you learned will help us improve that
> process.

Sure! I'm happy to help :) I will explain you my experience and
opinions! :

I started with XML analysis while searching some way to visualize
custom LTTng tracepoints on Trace-Compass. I'm using LTTng to analyse
the performance of HPC applications and debugging a custom Linux
Kernel extension we are working into. I first read about them on
the integrated Trace-Compass documentation. At the beginning I skipped
the section "Data Drive Analysis" because the name was confusing,
maybe something like "Custom Trace-Compass Views" of "User-defined
Trace-Compass Views" would be more effective on attracting the
attention of newcomers. I returned to this section later, after reading
everything else :)

At the beginning it was hard to grasp the entire concept (I did not
even new what an .xsd was), but the trace-compass people on IRC helped me
a lot to get started. I think that your documentation on XML analysis is
clearly explained for someone that already understands how XSD works,
but not for somebody new to the subject (maybe a bit more of
introduction would help).

Once I got my first view working I came across the necessity of doing
something different than what it is shown on the examples so I learned
the different options that could be used in each xml section by
reading the tmf/org.eclipse.tracecompass.tmf.analysis.xml.core/src/org/eclipse/tracecompass/tmf/analysis/xml/core/module/*.xsd
files. The embedded descriptions of the different attributes helped me
a lot to understand each option!

I have already done some simple views (like a per-CPU dynamic
frequency and idle C-states view (which maybe you could be interested
in)) and other more specific view for my work.  I will definitely
continue creating custom view to help me debug applications, I think
that this feature combined with the LTTng custom tracepoints is
awesome! (ftrace support would be awesome as well for when grumpy
sysadmins do not allow me to install LTTng (which happens quite often
:( ))

Please, do not hesitate to ask if I can further elaborate anything
else!
> 
> Thanks, Geneviève
> 
> On 2018-03-09 09:06 AM, aleix wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > This is my first message on the list, please excuse me if it is
> > not appropiate.
> >
> > I'm writing a custom state provider in XML and I'm wondering how
> > can I access the CPU id of a user space event within the state
> > provider. I have tried with:
> >
> >   <stateAttribute type="eventField" value="cpu_id" />
> >   
> > But it is not found. The babeltrace output of the LTTng trace
> > shows me:
> >
> > [17:33:44.238047390] (+0.000000366) xeon08 nanos:ust_task_label: {
> > cpu_id = 24 }, { vpid = 24505, vtid = 24557, procname =
> > "cholesky-weakit" }, { task_id = 1, task_label = "dgemm" }
> >
> > so the "cpu_id" field is present, although is not one of the
> > user-defined tracepoint parameters such as "task_id" or
> > "task_label".
> >
> > Any hint?
> >
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