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#! /usr/bin/env python
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
"""Example to show how to enable a software event and track context switches."""
# -*- python -*-
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#   twatch - Experimental use of the perf python interface
#   Copyright (C) 2011 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
#

import perf

def main(context_switch = 0, thread = -1):
    cpus = perf.cpu_map()
    threads = perf.thread_map(thread)
    evsel = perf.evsel(type	  = perf.TYPE_SOFTWARE,
               config = perf.COUNT_SW_DUMMY,
               task = 1, comm = 1, mmap = 0, freq = 0,
               wakeup_events = 1, watermark = 1,
               sample_id_all = 1, context_switch = context_switch,
               sample_type = perf.SAMPLE_PERIOD | perf.SAMPLE_TID | perf.SAMPLE_CPU)

    # What we want are just the PERF_RECORD_ lifetime events for threads,
    # using the default, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE + PERF_COUNT_HW_CYCLES & freq=1
    # (the default), makes perf reenable irq_vectors:local_timer_entry, when
    # disabling nohz, not good for some use cases where all we want is to get
    # threads comes and goes... So use (perf.TYPE_SOFTWARE, perf_COUNT_SW_DUMMY,
    # freq=0) instead.

    evsel.open(cpus = cpus, threads = threads)
    evlist = perf.evlist(cpus, threads)
    evlist.add(evsel)
    evlist.mmap()
    while True:
        evlist.poll(timeout = -1)
        for cpu in cpus:
            event = evlist.read_on_cpu(cpu)
            if not event:
                continue
            print("cpu: {0}, pid: {1}, tid: {2} {3}".format(event.sample_cpu,
                                                                        event.sample_pid,
                                                                        event.sample_tid,
                                                                        event))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    #     To test the PERF_RECORD_SWITCH record, pick a pid and replace
    # in the following line.

    # Example output:

    # cpu: 3, pid: 31463, tid: 31593 { type: context_switch, next_prev_pid: 31463, next_prev_tid: 31593, switch_out: 1 }
    # cpu: 1, pid: 31463, tid: 31489 { type: context_switch, next_prev_pid: 31463, next_prev_tid: 31489, switch_out: 1 }
    # cpu: 2, pid: 31463, tid: 31496 { type: context_switch, next_prev_pid: 31463, next_prev_tid: 31496, switch_out: 1 }
    # cpu: 3, pid: 31463, tid: 31491 { type: context_switch, next_prev_pid: 31463, next_prev_tid: 31491, switch_out: 0 }
    #
    # It is possible as well to use event.misc & perf.PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT
    # to figure out if this is a context switch in or out of the monitored threads.

    # If bored, please add command line option parsing support for these options :-)
    #     # main(context_switch = 1, thread = 31463)
    main()