summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-06 01:02:30 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-06 01:02:30 +0000
commit76cb841cb886eef6b3bee341a2266c76578724ad (patch)
treef5892e5ba6cc11949952a6ce4ecbe6d516d6ce58 /tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README
parentInitial commit. (diff)
downloadlinux-76cb841cb886eef6b3bee341a2266c76578724ad.tar.xz
linux-76cb841cb886eef6b3bee341a2266c76578724ad.zip
Adding upstream version 4.19.249.upstream/4.19.249
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README59
1 files changed, 59 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README b/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2f0c7f304
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/README
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+Perf-Trace-Util version 0.01
+============================
+
+This module contains utility functions for use with perf script.
+
+Core.pm and Util.pm are pure Perl modules; Core.pm contains routines
+that the core perf support for Perl calls on and should always be
+'used', while Util.pm contains useful but optional utility functions
+that scripts may want to use. Context.pm contains the Perl->C
+interface that allows scripts to access data in the embedding perf
+executable; scripts wishing to do that should 'use Context.pm'.
+
+The Perl->C perf interface is completely driven by Context.xs. If you
+want to add new Perl functions that end up accessing C data in the
+perf executable, you add desciptions of the new functions here.
+scripting_context is a pointer to the perf data in the perf executable
+that you want to access - it's passed as the second parameter,
+$context, to all handler functions.
+
+After you do that:
+
+ perl Makefile.PL # to create a Makefile for the next step
+ make # to create Context.c
+
+ edit Context.c to add const to the char* file = __FILE__ line in
+ XS(boot_Perf__Trace__Context) to silence a warning/error.
+
+ You can delete the Makefile, object files and anything else that was
+ generated e.g. blib and shared library, etc, except for of course
+ Context.c
+
+ You should then be able to run the normal perf make as usual.
+
+INSTALLATION
+
+Building perf with perf script Perl scripting should install this
+module in the right place.
+
+You should make sure libperl and ExtUtils/Embed.pm are installed first
+e.g. apt-get install libperl-dev or yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed.
+
+DEPENDENCIES
+
+This module requires these other modules and libraries:
+
+ None
+
+COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
+
+Copyright (C) 2009 by Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
+
+This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or,
+at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
+
+Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
+GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 as published by the Free
+Software Foundation.
+