Daniel Wagner reported to me that readproc.h got deprecated. Also,
while the procps-ng library was available on Fedora, it was not available
on RHEL, which is a piece of evidence that it was not that used.
rtla uses procps-ng only to find the PID of the tracers' workload.
I used the procps-ng library to avoid reinventing the wheel. But in this
case, reinventing the wheel took me less time than the time we already
took trying to work around problems.
Implement a function that reads /proc/ entries, checking if:
- the entry is a directory
- the directory name is composed only of digits (PID)
- the directory contains the comm file
- the comm file contains a comm that matches the tracers'
workload prefix.
- then return true; otherwise, return false.
And use it instead of procps-ng.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8276e122ee9eb2c5a0ba8e673fb6488b924b825.1652423574.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
Fixes: b1696371d8 ("rtla: Helper functions for rtla")
Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Change to "The rtla meta-tool includes"
- Remove an unnecessary "But, "
- Adjust the formatting of the paragraph resulting from the changes.
- Simplify the wording for the libraries and tools.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/437f0accdde53713ab3cce46f3564be00487e031.1651247710.git.bristot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220408161012.10544-1-jkacur@redhat.com/
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveria <bristot@kernel.org>
Fixes: 79ce8f43ac ("rtla: Real-Time Linux Analysis tool")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The rtla is a meta-tool that includes a set of commands that aims
to analyze the real-time properties of Linux. But instead of testing
Linux as a black box, rtla leverages kernel tracing capabilities to
provide precise information about the properties and root causes of
unexpected results.
rtla --help works and provide information about the available options.
This is just the "main" and the Makefile, no function yet.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bf9118ed43a09e6c054c9a491cbe7411ad1acd89.1639158831.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
