[ltt-dev] RFC LTTv TextDump

[David Goulet]

Hi everyone,

I propose here, only an idea, to create a lttv plugin for "human 
readable" text dump. There is too much information in the current 
textdump and it's not quite useful showing a lot of cryptic symbol and 
sec.nsec timestamp.

 From this (currently) :

ust.event: 336310.284597315 
(/data/dave/.usttraces/raoul-20101122150921506792809/12821_5542468726404202641/ust_6), 
0, 0, , , 0, 0x0, MODE_UNKNOWN { n = 42, b = 1 }

I propose that this plugin output something like that :

[%H:%M:%S nsec] <channel>.<event_name> : <PAYLOAD>

(here is the example below)

[93:25:10 284597315] ust.event : { n = 42, b = 1 }
(we could maybe cut down 93 hours to 3 days)

and having the first output of the trace being the information like :

Trace set contains 1 traces
<PATH_OF_TRACE>
Buffer size, basic stats.

For "user friendly" output, it will be way more useful.

Anyone wants to jump in that kind of "small" project :)

Thanks
David
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David Goulet
LTTng project, DORSAL Lab.

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