perf trace: Add interface to access perf data from Perl handlers

The Perl scripting support for perf trace allows most of a trace
event's data to be accessed directly as handler arguments, but
not all of it e.g. the less common fields aren't passed in.  To
give scripts access to the other fields and/or any other data or
metadata in the main perf executable that might be useful, a way
to access the C data in perf from Perl is needed; this patch
uses the Perl XS facility to do it for the common_xxx event
fields not passed to handler functions.

Context.pm exports three functions to Perl scripts that access
fields for the current event by calling back into perf:
common_pc(), common_flags() and common_lock_depth().  Support
for common_flags() field values was added to Core.pm and a
script used to sanity check these and other basic scripting
features, check-perf-trace.pl, was also added.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1259133352-23685-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Makefile.PL b/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Makefile.PL
index b0de02e6950d..decdeb0f6789 100644
--- a/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Makefile.PL
+++ b/tools/perf/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Makefile.PL
@@ -3,10 +3,15 @@ use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
 # See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
 # the contents of the Makefile that is written.
 WriteMakefile(
-    NAME              => 'Perf::Trace::Util',
-    VERSION_FROM      => 'lib/Perf/Trace/Util.pm', # finds $VERSION
+    NAME              => 'Perf::Trace::Context',
+    VERSION_FROM      => 'lib/Perf/Trace/Context.pm', # finds $VERSION
     PREREQ_PM         => {}, # e.g., Module::Name => 1.1
     ($] >= 5.005 ?     ## Add these new keywords supported since 5.005
-      (ABSTRACT_FROM  => 'lib/Perf/Trace/Util.pm', # retrieve abstract from module
+      (ABSTRACT_FROM  => 'lib/Perf/Trace/Context.pm', # retrieve abstract from module
        AUTHOR         => 'Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>') : ()),
+    LIBS              => [''], # e.g., '-lm'
+    DEFINE            => '-I ../..', # e.g., '-DHAVE_SOMETHING'
+    INC               => '-I.', # e.g., '-I. -I/usr/include/other'
+	# Un-comment this if you add C files to link with later:
+    OBJECT            => 'Context.o', # link all the C files too
 );