1 /* This file is part of the Linux Trace Toolkit Graphic User Interface
2 * Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Xiangxiu Yang, Mathieu Desnoyers
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20 This file is what every viewer plugin writer should refer to.
25 A viewer plugin is, before anything, a plugin. As a dynamically loadable
26 module, it thus has an init and a destroy function called whenever it is
27 loaded/initialized and unloaded/destroyed. A graphical module depends on
28 lttvwindow for construction of its viewer instances. In order to achieve
29 this, it must register its constructor function to the main window along
30 with button description or text menu entry description. A module keeps
31 a list of every viewer that currently sits in memory so it can destroy
32 them before the module gets unloaded/destroyed.
34 The contructor registration to the main windows adds button and menu
35 entry to each main window, thus allowing instanciation of viewers.
40 The main window is a container that offers menus, buttons and a
41 notebook. Some of those menus and buttons are part of the core of the
42 main window, others are dynamically added and removed when modules are
45 The notebook contains as much tabs as wanted. Each tab is linked with
46 a set of traces (traceset). Each trace contains many tracefiles (one
47 per cpu). A trace corresponds to a kernel being traced. A traceset
48 corresponds to many traces read together. The time span of a traceset
49 goes from the earliest start of all the traces to the latest end of all
52 Inside each tab are added the viewers. When they interact with the main
53 window through the lttvwindow API, they affect the other viewers located
54 in the same tab as they are.
56 The insertion of many viewers in a tab permits a quick look at all the
57 information wanted in a glance. The main window does merge the read
58 requests from all the viewers in the same tab in a way that every viewer
59 will get exactly the events it asked for, while the event reading loop
60 and state update are shared. It improves performance of events delivery
65 Viewer Instance Related API
67 The lifetime of a viewer is as follows. The viewer constructor function
68 is called each time an instance view is created (one subwindow of this
69 viewer type is created by the user either by clicking on the menu item
70 or the button corresponding to the viewer). Thereafter, the viewer gets
71 hooks called for different purposes by the window containing it. These
72 hooks are detailed below. It also has to deal with GTK Events. Finally,
73 it can be destructed by having its top level widget unreferenced by the
74 main window or by any GTK Event causing a "destroy-event" signal on the
75 its top widget. Another possible way for it do be destroyed is if the
76 module gets unloaded. The module unload function will have to emit a
77 "destroy" signal on each top level widget of all instances of its viewers.
80 Notices from Main Window
82 time_window : This is the time interval visible on the viewer's tab. Every
83 viewer that cares about being synchronised by respect to the
84 time with other viewers should register to this notification.
85 They should redraw all or part of their display when this occurs.
87 traceset : This notification is called whenever a trace is added/removed
88 from the traceset. As it affects all the data displayed by the
89 viewer, it sould redraw itself totally.
91 filter : FIXME : describe..
93 current_time: Being able to zoom nearer a specific time or highlight a specific
94 time on every viewer in synchronicity implies that the viewer
95 has to shown a visual sign over the drawing or select an event
96 when it receives this notice. It should also inform the main
97 window with the appropriate report API function when a user
98 selects a specific time as being the current time.
100 dividor : This notice links the positions of the horizontal dividors
101 between the graphic display zone of every viewer and their Y axis,
102 typically showing processes, cpus, ...
105 Reporting Changes to the Main Window
107 In most cases, the enclosing window knows about updates such as described
108 in the Notification section higher. There are a few cases, however, where
109 updates are caused by actions known by a view instance. For example,
110 clicking in a view may update the current time; all viewers within
111 the same window must be told about the new current time to change the
112 currently highlighted time point. A viewer reports such events by calling
113 lttvwindow_report_current_time on its lttvwindow. The lttvwindow will
114 consequently call current_time_notify for each of its contained viewers.
117 Available report methods are :
119 lttvwindow_report_time_window : reports the new time window.
120 lttvwindow_report_current_time : reports the new current time.
121 lttvwindow_report_dividor : reports the new horizontal dividor's position.
122 lttvwindow_report_filter : reports the new filter object
126 Requesting Events to Main Window
128 Events can be requested by passing a EventsRequest structure to the main
129 window. They will be delivered later when the next g_idle functions
130 will be called. Event delivery is done by calling the event hook for
131 this event ID, or the main event hooks. A pointer to the EventsRequest
132 structure is passed as hook_data to the event hooks of the viewers.
134 EventsRequest consists in
135 - a pointer to the viewer specific data structure
136 - a start timestamp or position
137 - a stop_flag, ending the read process when set to TRUE
138 - a end timestamp and/or position and/or number of events to read
139 - hook lists to call for traceset/trace/tracefile begin and end, and for each
140 event (event hooks and event_by_id hooks).
142 The main window will deliver events for every EventRequests it has
143 pending through an algorithm that guarantee that all events requested,
144 and only them, will be delivered to the viewer between the call of the
145 tracefile_begin hooks and the call of the tracefile_end hooks.
147 If a viewer wants to stop the event request at a certain point inside the
148 event hooks, it has to set the stop_flag to TRUE and return TRUE from the
149 hook function. Then return value will stop the process traceset. Then,
150 the main window will look for the stop_flag and remove the EventRequests
151 from its lists, calling the process_traceset_end for this request (it
152 removes hooks from the context and calls the after hooks).
154 It no stop_flag is risen, the end timestamp, end position or number
155 of events to read has to be reached to determine the end of the
156 request. Otherwise, the end of traceset does determine it.
163 GTK is quite different from the other graphical toolkits around
164 there. The main difference resides in that there are many X Windows
165 inside one GtkWindow, instead of just one. That means that X events are
166 delivered by the glib main loop directly to the widget corresponding to
167 the GdkWindow affected by the X event.
169 Event delivery to a widget emits a signal on that widget. Then, if a
170 handler is connected to this widget's signal, it will be executed. There
171 are default handlers for signals, connected at class instantiation
172 time. There is also the possibility to connect other handlers to these
173 signals, which is what should be done in most cases when a viewer needs
174 to interact with X in any way.
178 Signal emission and propagation is described there :
180 http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/sec-signalemissionandpropagation.html
182 For further information on the GTK main loop (now a wrapper over glib main loop)
185 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-General.html
186 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html
189 For documentation on event handling in GTK/GDK, see :
191 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Events.html
192 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Event-Structures.html
195 Signals can be connected to handlers, emitted, propagated, blocked,
198 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gobject/gobject-Signals.html
205 Provides the exposed region in the GdkEventExpose structure.
207 There are two ways of dealing with exposures. The first one is to directly
208 draw on the screen and the second one is to draw in a pixmap buffer,
209 and then to update the screen when necessary.
211 In the first case, the expose event will be responsible for registering
212 hooks to process_traceset and require time intervals to the main
213 window. So, in this scenario, if a part of the screen is damaged, the
214 trace has to be read to redraw the screen.
216 In the second case, with a pixmap buffer, the expose handler is only
217 responsible of showing the pixmap buffer on the screen. If the pixmap
218 buffer has never been filled with a drawing, the expose handler may ask
221 The interest of using events request to the main window instead of reading
222 the events directly from the trace comes from the fact that the main
223 window does merge requests from the different viewers in the same tab so
224 that the read loop and the state update is shared. As viewers will, in
225 the common scenario, request the same events, only one pass through the
226 trace that will call the right hooks for the right intervals will be done.
228 When the traceset read is over for a events request, the traceset_end
229 hook is called. It has the responsibility of finishing the drawing if
230 some parts still need to be drawn and to show it on the screen (if the
231 viewer uses a pixmap buffer).
233 It can add dotted lines and such visual effects to enhance the user's
237 FIXME : explain other important events
245 /*! \file lttvwindow.h
246 * \brief API used by the graphical viewers to interact with their top window.
248 * Main window (lttvwindow module) is the place to contain and display viewers.
249 * Viewers (lttv plugins) interact with main window through this API.
250 * This header file should be included in each graphic module.
256 #include <ltt/time.h>
257 #include <lttv/hook.h>
258 #include <lttv/tracecontext.h>
259 #include <lttv/stats.h>
260 #include <lttv/filter.h>
261 #include <lttvwindow/mainwindow.h>
263 /* Module Related API */
265 /* GQuark containing constructors of viewers in global attributes */
266 extern GQuark LTTV_VIEWER_CONSTRUCTORS
;
268 /* constructor a the viewer */
269 typedef GtkWidget
* (*lttvwindow_viewer_constructor
)(Tab
*tab
);
273 * Function to register a view constructor so that main window can generate
274 * a menu item and a toolbar item for the viewer in order to generate a new
275 * instance easily. A menu entry and toolbar item will be added to each main
278 * It should be called by init function of the module.
280 * @param name name of the viewer : mainly used as tag for constructor
281 * @param menu_path path of the menu item. NULL : no menu entry.
282 * @param menu_text text of the menu item.
283 * @param pixmap Image shown on the toolbar item. NULL : no button.
284 * @param tooltip tooltip of the toolbar item.
285 * @param view_constructor constructor of the viewer.
288 void lttvwindow_register_constructor
294 lttvwindow_viewer_constructor view_constructor
);
298 * Function to unregister the viewer's constructor, release the space
299 * occupied by menu_path, menu_text, pixmap, tooltip and constructor of the
302 * It will be called when a module is unloaded.
304 * @param view_constructor constructor of the viewer.
307 void lttvwindow_unregister_constructor
308 (lttvwindow_viewer_constructor view_constructor
);
313 /* Viewer Instance Related API */
316 * Structure used as hook_data for the time_window_notify hook.
318 typedef struct _TimeWindowNotifyData
{
319 TimeWindow
*new_time_window
;
320 TimeWindow
*old_time_window
;
321 } TimeWindowNotifyData
;
325 * Function to register a hook function that will be called by the main window
326 * when the time interval needs to be updated.
328 * This register function is typically called by the constructor of the viewer.
330 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
331 * @param hook hook that sould be called by the main window when the time
332 * interval changes. This hook function takes a
333 * TimeWindowNotifyData* as call_data.
334 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
335 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
338 void lttvwindow_register_time_window_notify(Tab
*tab
,
344 * Function to unregister the time_window notification hook.
346 * This unregister function is typically called by the destructor of the viewer.
348 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
349 * @param hook hook that sould be called by the main window when the time
350 * interval changes. This hook function takes a
351 * TimeWindowNotifyData* as call_data.
352 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
353 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
356 void lttvwindow_unregister_time_window_notify(Tab
*tab
,
362 * Function to register a hook function that will be called by the main window
363 * when the traceset is changed. That means that the viewer must redraw
364 * itself completely or check if it's affected by the particular change to the
367 * This register function is typically called by the constructor of the viewer.
369 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
370 * @param hook hook that should be called whenever a change to the traceset
371 * occurs. The call_data of this hook is a NULL pointer.
372 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
373 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
376 void lttvwindow_register_traceset_notify(Tab
*tab
,
382 * Function to unregister the traceset_notify hook.
384 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
385 * @param hook hook that should be called whenever a change to the traceset
386 * occurs. The call_data of this hook is a NULL pointer.
387 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
388 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
391 void lttvwindow_unregister_traceset_notify(Tab
*tab
,
397 * Function to register a hook function for a viewer be completely redrawn.
399 * @param tab viewer's tab
400 * @param hook hook function of the viewer.
401 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function.
404 void lttvwindow_register_redraw_notify(Tab
*tab
,
405 LttvHook hook
, gpointer hook_data
);
408 * Function to unregister a hook function for a viewer be completely redrawn.
410 * @param tab viewer's tab
411 * @param hook hook function of the viewer.
412 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function.
415 void lttvwindow_unregister_redraw_notify(Tab
*tab
,
416 LttvHook hook
, gpointer hook_data
);
420 * Function to register a hook function for a viewer to re-do the events
421 * requests for the needed interval.
423 * This action is typically done after a "stop".
425 * The typical hook will remove all current requests for the viewer
426 * and make requests for missing information.
428 * @param tab viewer's tab
429 * @param hook hook function of the viewer.
430 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function.
433 void lttvwindow_register_continue_notify(Tab
*tab
,
434 LttvHook hook
, gpointer hook_data
);
438 * Function to unregister a hook function for a viewer to re-do the events
439 * requests for the needed interval.
441 * @param tab viewer's tab
442 * @param hook hook function of the viewer.
443 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function.
446 void lttvwindow_unregister_continue_notify(Tab
*tab
,
447 LttvHook hook
, gpointer hook_data
);
451 * Function to register a hook function for a viewer to set/update its
454 * FIXME : Add information about what a filter is as seen from a viewer and how
457 * This register function is typically called by the constructor of the viewer.
459 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
460 * @param hook hook function called by the main window when a filter change
462 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
463 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
466 void lttvwindow_register_filter_notify(Tab
*tab
,
472 * Function to unregister a viewer's hook function which is used to
473 * set/update the filter of the viewer.
475 * This unregistration is called by the destructor of the viewer.
477 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
478 * @param hook hook function called by the main window when a filter change
480 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
481 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
484 void lttvwindow_unregister_filter_notify(Tab
*tab
,
490 * Function to register a hook function for a viewer to set/update its
493 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
494 * @param hook hook function of the viewer that updates the current time. The
495 * call_data is a LttTime* representing the new current time.
496 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
497 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
500 void lttvwindow_register_current_time_notify(Tab
*tab
,
506 * Function to unregister a viewer's hook function which is used to
507 * set/update the current time of the viewer.
508 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
509 * @param hook hook function of the viewer that updates the current time. The
510 * call_data is a LttTime* representing the new current time.
511 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
512 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
515 void lttvwindow_unregister_current_time_notify(Tab
*tab
,
521 * Function to register a hook function for a viewer to set/update the
522 * dividor of the hpane. It provides a way to make the horizontal
523 * dividors of all the viewers linked together.
525 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
526 * @param hook hook function of the viewer that will be called whenever a
527 * dividor changes in another viewer. The call_data of this hook
528 * is a gint*. The value of the integer is the new position of the
530 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
531 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
534 void lttvwindow_register_dividor(Tab
*tab
,
540 * Function to unregister a viewer's hook function which is used to
541 * set/update hpane's dividor of the viewer.
543 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
544 * @param hook hook function of the viewer that will be called whenever a
545 * dividor changes in another viewer. The call_data of this hook
546 * is a gint*. The value of the integer is the new position of the
548 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
549 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
552 void lttvwindow_unregister_dividor(Tab
*tab
,
559 * Function to set the time interval of the current tab.a
561 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
562 * @param time_interval new time window.
565 void lttvwindow_report_time_window(Tab
*tab
,
566 TimeWindow time_window
);
569 * Function to set the current time/event of the current tab.
570 * It will be called by a viewer's signal handle associated with
571 * the button-release-event signal
572 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
573 * @param new current time.
576 void lttvwindow_report_current_time(Tab
*tab
,
581 * Function to set the position of the hpane's dividor (viewer).
582 * It will typically be called by a viewer's signal handle associated
583 * with the motion_notify_event event/signal.
585 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
586 * @param position position of the hpane's dividor.
589 void lttvwindow_report_dividor(Tab
*tab
, gint position
);
592 /* Structure sent to the events request hook */
593 /* Value considered as empty*/
594 typedef struct _EventsRequest
{
595 gpointer owner
; /* Owner of the request */
596 gpointer viewer_data
; /* Unset : NULL */
597 gboolean servicing
; /* service in progress: TRUE*/
598 LttTime start_time
; /* Unset : ltt_time_infinite*/
599 LttvTracesetContextPosition
*start_position
; /* Unset : NULL */
600 gboolean stop_flag
; /* Continue:TRUE Stop:FALSE */
601 LttTime end_time
; /* Unset : ltt_time_infinite*/
602 guint num_events
; /* Unset : G_MAXUINT */
603 LttvTracesetContextPosition
*end_position
; /* Unset : NULL */
604 gint trace
; /* unset : -1 */
605 GArray
*hooks
; /* Unset : NULL */
606 LttvHooks
*before_chunk_traceset
; /* Unset : NULL */
607 LttvHooks
*before_chunk_trace
; /* Unset : NULL */
608 LttvHooks
*before_chunk_tracefile
;/* Unset : NULL */
609 LttvHooks
*event
; /* Unset : NULL */
610 LttvHooksById
*event_by_id
; /* Unset : NULL */
611 LttvHooks
*after_chunk_tracefile
; /* Unset : NULL */
612 LttvHooks
*after_chunk_trace
; /* Unset : NULL */
613 LttvHooks
*after_chunk_traceset
; /* Unset : NULL */
614 LttvHooks
*before_request
; /* Unset : NULL */
615 LttvHooks
*after_request
; /* Unset : NULL */
618 /* Maximum number of events to proceed at once in a chunk */
619 #define CHUNK_NUM_EVENTS 6000
623 * Function to request data in a specific time interval to the main window. The
624 * event request servicing is differed until the glib idle functions are
627 * The viewer has to provide hooks that should be associated with the event
630 * Either start time or start position must be defined in a EventRequest
631 * structure for it to be valid.
633 * end_time, end_position and num_events can all be defined. The first one
634 * to occur will be used as end criterion.
636 * The events_request memory will be managed by the main window once its
637 * pointer is passed by this function.
639 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
640 * @param events_requested Details about the event request.
643 void lttvwindow_events_request(Tab
*tab
,
644 EventsRequest
*events_request
);
647 * Function to remove data requests related to a viewer.
649 * The existing requests's viewer gpointer is compared to the pointer
650 * given in argument to establish which data request should be removed.
652 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
653 * @param viewer a pointer to the viewer data structure
656 void lttvwindow_events_request_remove_all(Tab
*tab
,
657 gconstpointer viewer
);
661 * Function to get the current time interval shown on the current tab.
662 * It will be called by a viewer's hook function to update the
663 * shown time interval of the viewer and also be called by the constructor
665 * @param tab viewer's tab
666 * @return time window.
669 TimeWindow
lttvwindow_get_time_window(Tab
*tab
);
673 * Function to get the current time of the current tab.
675 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
676 * @return the current tab's current time.
679 LttTime
lttvwindow_get_current_time(Tab
*tab
);
683 * Function to get the filter of the current tab.
684 * @param main_win, the main window the viewer belongs to.
685 * @param filter, a pointer to a filter.
688 LttvFilter
*lttvwindow_get_filter(Tab
*tab
);
691 * Function to set the filter of the current tab.
692 * It should be called by the filter GUI to tell the
693 * main window to update the filter tab's lttv_filter.
695 * Notice : the lttv_filter object will be owned by the
696 * main window after the return of this function.
697 * Do NOT desallocate it.
699 * @param main_win, the main window the viewer belongs to.
700 * @param filter, a pointer to a filter.
703 void lttvwindow_report_filter(Tab
*tab
, LttvFilter
*filter
);
708 * Function to get the stats of the traceset
709 * It must be non const so the viewer can modify it.
710 * FIXME : a set/get pair of functions would be more appropriate here.
711 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
712 * @return A pointer to Traceset statistics.
715 LttvTracesetStats
* lttvwindow_get_traceset_stats(Tab
*tab
);
718 * Function to get the context of the traceset
719 * It must be non const so the viewer can add and remove hooks from it.
720 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
721 * @return Context of the current tab.
725 LttvTracesetContext
* lttvwindow_get_traceset_context(Tab
*tab
);
730 * It updates the time window of the tab, then calls the updatetimewindow
731 * hooks of each viewer.
733 * This is called whenever the scrollbar value changes.
735 * This is mostly an internal function.
738 void set_time_window(Tab
*tab
, const TimeWindow
*time_window
);
743 * It updates the current time of the tab, then calls the updatetimewindow
744 * hooks of each viewer.
746 * This is called whenever the current time value changes.
748 * This is mostly an internal function.
751 void set_current_time(Tab
*tab
, const LttTime
*current_time
);