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18
19 /*
20 This file is what every viewer plugin writer should refer to.
21
22
23 Module Related API
24
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 this,
29 it must register its constructor function to the main window along with
30 button description or text menu entry description. A module keeps a list of
31 every viewer that currently sits in memory so it can destroy them before the
32 module gets unloaded/destroyed.
33
34 The contructor registration to the main windows adds button and menu entry
35 to each main window, thus allowing instanciation of viewers.
36
37
38 Main Window
39
40 The main window is a container that offers menus, buttons and a notebook. Some
41 of those menus and buttons are part of the core of the main window, others
42 are dynamically added and removed when modules are loaded/unloaded.
43
44 The notebook contains as much tabs as wanted. Each tab is linked with a
45 set of traces (traceset). Each trace contains many tracefiles (one per cpu).
46 A trace corresponds to a kernel being traced. A traceset corresponds to
47 many traces read together. The time span of a traceset goes from the
48 earliest start of all the traces to the latest end of all the traces.
49
50 Inside each tab are added the viewers. When they interact with the main
51 window through the lttvwindow API, they affect the other viewers located
52 in the same tab as they are.
53
54 The insertion of many viewers in a tab permits a quick look at all the
55 information wanted in a glance. The main window does merge the read requests
56 from all the viewers in the same tab in a way that every viewer will get exactly
57 the events it asked for, while the event reading loop and state update are
58 shared. It improves performance of events delivery to the viewers.
59
60
61
62 Viewer Instance Related API
63
64 The lifetime of a viewer is as follows. The viewer constructor function is
65 called each time an instance view is created (one subwindow of this viewer
66 type is created by the user either by clicking on the menu item or the button
67 corresponding to the viewer). Thereafter, the viewer gets hooks called for
68 different purposes by the window containing it. These hooks are detailed
69 below. It also has to deal with GTK Events. Finally, it can be destructed by
70 having its top level widget unreferenced by the main window or by any
71 GTK Event causing a "destroy-event" signal on the its top widget. Another
72 possible way for it do be destroyed is if the module gets unloaded. The module
73 unload function will have to emit a "destroy" signal on each top level widget
74 of all instances of its viewers.
75
76
77 Notices from Main Window
78
79 time_window : This is the time interval visible on the viewer's tab. Every
80 viewer that cares about being synchronised by respect to the
81 time with other viewers should register to this notification.
82 They should redraw all or part of their display when this occurs.
83
84 traceset : This notification is called whenever a trace is added/removed
85 from the traceset. As it affects all the data displayed by the
86 viewer, it sould redraw itself totally.
87
88 filter : FIXME : describe..
89
90 current_time: Being able to zoom nearer a specific time or highlight a specific
91 time on every viewer in synchronicity implies that the viewer
92 has to shown a visual sign over the drawing or select an event
93 when it receives this notice. It should also inform the main
94 window with the appropriate report API function when a user
95 selects a specific time as being the current time.
96
97 dividor : This notice links the positions of the horizontal dividors
98 between the graphic display zone of every viewer and their Y axis,
99 typically showing processes, cpus, ...
100
101
102 FIXME : Add background computation explanation here
103 background_init: prepare for background computation (comes after show_end).
104 process_trace for background: done in small chunks in gtk_idle, hooks called.
105 background_end: remove the hooks and perhaps update the window.
106
107
108 Reporting Changes to the Main Window
109
110 In most cases, the enclosing window knows about updates such as described in the
111 Notification section higher. There are a few cases, however, where updates are
112 caused by actions known by a view instance. For example, clicking in a view may
113 update the current time; all viewers within the same window must be told about
114 the new current time to change the currently highlighted time point. A viewer
115 reports such events by calling lttvwindow_report_current_time on its lttvwindow.
116 The lttvwindow will consequently call current_time_notify for each of its
117 contained viewers.
118
119
120 Available report methods are :
121
122 lttvwindow_report_status : reports the text of the status bar.
123 lttvwindow_report_time_window : reports the new time window.
124 lttvwindow_report_current_time : reports the new current time.
125 lttvwindow_report_dividor : reports the new horizontal dividor's position.
126 lttvwindow_report_focus : One on the widgets in the viewer has the keyboard's
127 focus from GTK.
128
129
130
131 Requesting Events to Main Window
132
133 Events can be requested by passing a EventsRequest structure to the main window.
134 They will be delivered later when the next g_idle functions will be called.
135 Event delivery is done by calling the event hook for this event ID, or the
136 main event hooks. A pointer to the EventsRequest structure is passed as
137 hook_data to the event hooks of the viewers.
138
139 EventsRequest consists in
140 - a pointer to the viewer specific data structure
141 - a start timestamp or position
142 - a stop_flag, ending the read process when set to TRUE
143 - a end timestamp and/or position and/or number of events to read
144 - hook lists to call for traceset/trace/tracefile begin and end, and for each
145 event (event hooks and event_by_id hooks).
146
147 The main window will deliver events for every EventRequests it has pending
148 through an algorithm that guarantee that all events requested, and only them,
149 will be delivered to the viewer between the call of the tracefile_begin hooks
150 and the call of the tracefile_end hooks.
151
152 If a viewer wants to stop the event request at a certain point inside the event
153 hooks, it has to set the stop_flag to TRUE and return TRUE from the hook
154 function. Then return value will stop the process traceset. Then, the main
155 window will look for the stop_flag and remove the EventRequests from its lists,
156 calling the process_traceset_end for this request (it removes hooks from the
157 context and calls the after hooks).
158
159 It no stop_flag is rose, the end timestamp, end position or number of events to
160 read has to be reached to determine the end of the request. Otherwise,
161 the end of traceset does determine it.
162
163
164 GTK Events
165
166 Events and Signals
167
168 GTK is quite different from the other graphical toolkits around there. The main
169 difference resides in that there are many X Windows inside one GtkWindow,
170 instead of just one. That means that X events are delivered by the glib main
171 loop directly to the widget corresponding to the GdkWindow affected by the X
172 event.
173
174 Event delivery to a widget emits a signal on that widget. Then, if a handler
175 is connected to this widget's signal, it will be executed. There are default
176 handlers for signals, connected at class instantiation time. There is also
177 the possibility to connect other handlers to these signals, which is what
178 should be done in most cases when a viewer needs to interact with X in any
179 way.
180
181
182
183 Signal emission and propagation is described there :
184
185 http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/sec-signalemissionandpropagation.html
186
187 For further information on the GTK main loop (now a wrapper over glib main loop)
188 see :
189
190 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-General.html
191 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html
192
193
194 For documentation on event handling in GTK/GDK, see :
195
196 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Events.html
197 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk/gdk-Event-Structures.html
198
199
200 Signals can be connected to handlers, emitted, propagated, blocked,
201 stopped. See :
202
203 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gobject/gobject-Signals.html
204
205
206
207
208 The "expose_event"
209
210 Provides the exposed region in the GdkEventExpose structure.
211
212 There are two ways of dealing with exposures. The first one is to directly draw
213 on the screen and the second one is to draw in a pixmap buffer, and then to
214 update the screen when necessary.
215
216 In the first case, the expose event will be responsible for registering hooks to
217 process_traceset and require time intervals to the main window. So, in this
218 scenario, if a part of the screen is damaged, the trace has to be read to
219 redraw the screen.
220
221 In the second case, with a pixmap buffer, the expose handler is only responsible
222 of showing the pixmap buffer on the screen. If the pixmap buffer has never
223 been filled with a drawing, the expose handler may ask for it to be filled.
224
225 The interest of using events request to the main window instead of reading the
226 events directly from the trace comes from the fact that the main window
227 does merge requests from the different viewers in the same tab so that the
228 read loop and the state update is shared. As viewers will, in the common
229 scenario, request the same events, only one pass through the trace that will
230 call the right hooks for the right intervals will be done.
231
232 When the traceset read is over for a events request, the traceset_end hook is
233 called. It has the responsibility of finishing the drawing if some parts
234 still need to be drawn and to show it on the screen (if the viewer uses a pixmap
235 buffer).
236
237 It can add dotted lines and such visual effects to enhance the user's
238 experience.
239
240
241 FIXME : explain other important events
242
243 */
244
245
246 #ifndef VIEWER_H
247 #define VIEWER_H
248
249 /*! \file viewer.h
250 * \brief API used by the graphical viewers to interact with their top window.
251 *
252 * Main window (lttvwindow module) is the place to contain and display viewers.
253 * Viewers (lttv plugins) interact with main window through this API.
254 * This header file should be included in each graphic module.
255 *
256 */
257
258 #include <gtk/gtk.h>
259 #include <ltt/ltt.h>
260 #include <ltt/time.h>
261 #include <lttv/hook.h>
262 #include <lttv/tracecontext.h>
263 #include <lttv/stats.h>
264 #include <lttvwindow/common.h>
265 //FIXME (not ready yet) #include <lttv/filter.h>
266
267
268 /* Module Related API */
269
270
271 /* constructor a the viewer */
272 //FIXME explain LttvTracesetSelector and key
273 typedef GtkWidget * (*lttvwindow_viewer_constructor)
274 (Tab *tab, LttvTracesetSelector * s, char *key);
275
276
277 /**
278 * Function to register a view constructor so that main window can generate
279 * a menu item and a toolbar item for the viewer in order to generate a new
280 * instance easily. A menu entry and toolbar item will be added to each main
281 * window.
282 *
283 * It should be called by init function of the module.
284 *
285 * @param menu_path path of the menu item. NULL : no menu entry.
286 * @param menu_text text of the menu item.
287 * @param pixmap Image shown on the toolbar item. NULL : no button.
288 * @param tooltip tooltip of the toolbar item.
289 * @param view_constructor constructor of the viewer.
290 */
291
292 void lttvwindow_register_constructor
293 (char * menu_path,
294 char * menu_text,
295 char ** pixmap,
296 char * tooltip,
297 lttvwindow_viewer_constructor view_constructor);
298
299
300 /**
301 * Function to unregister the viewer's constructor, release the space
302 * occupied by menu_path, menu_text, pixmap, tooltip and constructor of the
303 * viewer.
304 *
305 * It will be called when a module is unloaded.
306 *
307 * @param view_constructor constructor of the viewer.
308 */
309
310 void lttvwindow_unregister_constructor
311 (lttvwindow_viewer_constructor view_constructor);
312
313
314
315
316 /* Viewer Instance Related API */
317
318 /**
319 * Structure used as hook_data for the time_window_notify hook.
320 */
321 typedef struct _TimeWindowNotifyData {
322 TimeWindow *new_time_window;
323 TimeWindow *old_time_window;
324 } TimeWindowNotifyData;
325
326
327 /**
328 * Function to register a hook function that will be called by the main window
329 * when the time interval needs to be updated.
330 *
331 * This register function is typically called by the constructor of the viewer.
332 *
333 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
334 * @param hook hook that sould be called by the main window when the time
335 * interval changes. This hook function takes a
336 * TimeWindowNotifyData* as call_data.
337 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
338 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
339 */
340
341 void lttvwindow_register_time_window_notify(Tab *tab,
342 LttvHook hook,
343 gpointer hook_data);
344
345
346 /**
347 * Function to unregister the time_window notification hook.
348 *
349 * This unregister function is typically called by the destructor of the viewer.
350 *
351 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
352 * @param hook hook that sould be called by the main window when the time
353 * interval changes. This hook function takes a
354 * TimeWindowNotifyData* as call_data.
355 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
356 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
357 */
358
359 void lttvwindow_unregister_time_window_notify(Tab *tab,
360 LttvHook hook,
361 gpointer hook_data);
362
363
364 /**
365 * Function to register a hook function that will be called by the main window
366 * when the traceset is changed. That means that the viewer must redraw
367 * itself completely or check if it's affected by the particular change to the
368 * traceset.
369 *
370 * This register function is typically called by the constructor of the viewer.
371 *
372 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
373 * @param hook hook that should be called whenever a change to the traceset
374 * occurs. The call_data of this hook is a NULL pointer.
375 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
376 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
377 */
378
379 void lttvwindow_register_traceset_notify(Tab *tab,
380 LttvHook hook,
381 gpointer hook_data);
382
383
384 /**
385 * Function to unregister the traceset_notify hook.
386 *
387 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
388 * @param hook hook that should be called whenever a change to the traceset
389 * occurs. The call_data of this hook is a NULL pointer.
390 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
391 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
392 */
393
394 void lttvwindow_unregister_traceset_notify(Tab *tab,
395 LttvHook hook,
396 gpointer hook_data);
397
398
399 /**
400 * Function to register a hook function for a viewer to set/update its
401 * filter.
402 *
403 * FIXME : Add information about what a filter is as seen from a viewer and how
404 * to use it.
405 *
406 * This register function is typically called by the constructor of the viewer.
407 *
408 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
409 * @param hook hook function called by the main window when a filter change
410 * occurs.
411 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
412 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
413 */
414
415 void lttvwindow_register_filter_notify(Tab *tab,
416 LttvHook hook,
417 gpointer hook_data);
418
419
420 /**
421 * Function to unregister a viewer's hook function which is used to
422 * set/update the filter of the viewer.
423 *
424 * This unregistration is called by the destructor of the viewer.
425 *
426 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
427 * @param hook hook function called by the main window when a filter change
428 * occurs.
429 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
430 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
431 */
432
433 void lttvwindow_unregister_filter_notify(Tab *tab,
434 LttvHook hook,
435 gpointer hook_data);
436
437
438 /**
439 * Function to register a hook function for a viewer to set/update its
440 * current time.
441 *
442 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
443 * @param hook hook function of the viewer that updates the current time. The
444 * call_data is a LttTime* representing the new current time.
445 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
446 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
447 */
448
449 void lttvwindow_register_current_time_notify(Tab *tab,
450 LttvHook hook,
451 gpointer hook_data);
452
453
454 /**
455 * Function to unregister a viewer's hook function which is used to
456 * set/update the current time of the viewer.
457 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
458 * @param hook hook function of the viewer that updates the current time. The
459 * call_data is a LttTime* representing the new current time.
460 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
461 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
462 */
463
464 void lttvwindow_unregister_current_time_notify(Tab *tab,
465 LttvHook hook,
466 gpointer hook_data);
467
468
469 /**
470 * Function to register a hook function for a viewer to set/update the
471 * dividor of the hpane. It provides a way to make the horizontal
472 * dividors of all the viewers linked together.
473 *
474 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
475 * @param hook hook function of the viewer that will be called whenever a
476 * dividor changes in another viewer. The call_data of this hook
477 * is a gint*. The value of the integer is the new position of the
478 * hpane dividor.
479 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
480 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
481 */
482
483 void lttvwindow_register_dividor(Tab *tab,
484 LttvHook hook,
485 gpointer hook_data);
486
487
488 /**
489 * Function to unregister a viewer's hook function which is used to
490 * set/update hpane's dividor of the viewer.
491 *
492 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
493 * @param hook hook function of the viewer that will be called whenever a
494 * dividor changes in another viewer. The call_data of this hook
495 * is a gint*. The value of the integer is the new position of the
496 * hpane dividor.
497 * @param hook_data hook data associated with the hook function. It will
498 * be typically a pointer to the viewer's data structure.
499 */
500
501 void lttvwindow_unregister_dividor(Tab *tab,
502 LttvHook hook,
503 gpointer hook_data);
504
505
506
507 /**
508 * This method reports the information to show on the status bar in the
509 * main window.
510 *
511 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
512 * @param info the message which will be shown in the status bar.
513 */
514
515 void lttvwindow_report_status(Tab *tab, const char *info);
516
517
518 /**
519 * Function to set the time interval of the current tab.a
520 *
521 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
522 * @param time_interval pointer to the time interval value.
523 */
524
525 void lttvwindow_report_time_window(Tab *tab,
526 const TimeWindow *time_window);
527
528 /**
529 * Function to set the current time/event of the current tab.
530 * It will be called by a viewer's signal handle associated with
531 * the button-release-event signal
532 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
533 * @param time a pointer where time is stored.
534 */
535
536 void lttvwindow_report_current_time(Tab *tab,
537 const LttTime *time);
538
539
540 /**
541 * Function to set the position of the hpane's dividor (viewer).
542 * It will typically be called by a viewer's signal handle associated
543 * with the motion_notify_event event/signal.
544 *
545 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
546 * @param position position of the hpane's dividor.
547 */
548
549 void lttvwindow_report_dividor(Tab *tab, gint position);
550
551 /**
552 * Function to set the focused viewer of the tab.
553 * It will be called by a viewer's signal handle associated with
554 * the grab_focus signal of all widgets in the viewer.
555 *
556 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
557 * @param top_widget the top widget containing all the other widgets of the
558 * viewer.
559 */
560 void lttvwindow_report_focus(Tab *tab,
561 GtkWidget *top_widget);
562
563
564 /* Structure sent to the events request hook */
565 /* Value considered as empty */
566 typedef struct _EventsRequest {
567 gpointer viewer_data; /* Unset : NULL */
568 gboolean servicing; /* service in progress: TRUE */
569 LttTime start_time;/* Unset : { G_MAXUINT, G_MAXUINT }*/
570 LttvTracesetContextPosition *start_position; /* Unset : NULL */
571 gboolean stop_flag; /* Continue:TRUE Stop:FALSE */
572 LttTime end_time;/* Unset : { G_MAXUINT, G_MAXUINT } */
573 guint num_events; /* Unset : G_MAXUINT */
574 LttvTracesetContextPosition *end_position; /* Unset : NULL */
575 LttvHooks *before_chunk_traceset; /* Unset : NULL */
576 LttvHooks *before_chunk_trace; /* Unset : NULL */
577 LttvHooks *before_chunk_tracefile;/* Unset : NULL */
578 LttvHooks *event; /* Unset : NULL */
579 LttvHooksById *event_by_id; /* Unset : NULL */
580 LttvHooks *after_chunk_tracefile; /* Unset : NULL */
581 LttvHooks *after_chunk_trace; /* Unset : NULL */
582 LttvHooks *after_chunk_traceset; /* Unset : NULL */
583 LttvHooks *before_request; /* Unset : NULL */
584 LttvHooks *after_request /* Unset : NULL */
585 } EventsRequest;
586
587
588 /**
589 * Function to request data in a specific time interval to the main window. The
590 * event request servicing is differed until the glib idle functions are
591 * called.
592 *
593 * The viewer has to provide hooks that should be associated with the event
594 * request.
595 *
596 * Either start time or start position must be defined in a EventRequest
597 * structure for it to be valid.
598 *
599 * end_time, end_position and num_events can all be defined. The first one
600 * to occur will be used as end criterion.
601 *
602 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
603 * @param events_requested Details about the event request.
604 */
605
606 void lttvwindow_events_request(Tab *tab,
607 const EventsRequest *events_request);
608
609 /**
610 * Function to remove data requests related to a viewer.
611 *
612 * The existing requests's viewer gpointer is compared to the pointer
613 * given in argument to establish which data request should be removed.
614 *
615 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
616 * @param viewer a pointer to the viewer data structure
617 */
618
619 void lttvwindow_events_request_remove_all(Tab *tab,
620 gconstpointer viewer);
621
622
623 typedef struct _BackgroundRequest {
624 gchar *hook_path; /* Hook path in global attributes, where all standard hooks
625 are : i.e. /TraceState/Statistics/ModuleName */
626 gchar *trace_path; /* path_to_trace */
627 } BackgroundRequest;
628
629 typedef struct _BackgroundNotify {
630 gchar *trace_path; /* path_to_trace */
631 LttTime notify_time;
632 LttvTracesetContextPosition *notify_position;
633 LttvHooks *notify; /* Hook to call when the notify is
634 passed, or at the end of trace */
635 } BackgroundNotify;
636
637 /**
638 * Function to request data from a specific trace
639 *
640 * @param bg_request Request specification
641 */
642
643 void lttvwindow_background_request_queue(const BackgroundRequest *bg_request);
644
645 /**
646 * Register a callback to be called when requested data is passed in the next
647 * queued background processing.
648 *
649 * @param bg_request Request specification
650 */
651
652 void lttvwindow_background_notify_queue(const BackgroundNotify *bg_notify);
653
654
655 /**
656 * Register a callback to be called when requested data is passed in the current
657 * background processing.
658 *
659 * @param bg_request Request specification
660 */
661
662 void lttvwindow_background_notify_current(const BackgroundNotify *bg_notify);
663
664
665 /**
666 * Function to get the current time window of the current tab.
667 *
668 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
669 * @return a pointer to the current tab's time interval.
670 */
671
672 const TimeWindow *lttvwindow_get_time_window(Tab *tab);
673
674
675 /**
676 * Function to get the current time of the current tab.
677 *
678 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
679 * @return a pointer to the current tab's current time.
680 */
681
682 const LttTime *lttvwindow_get_current_time(Tab *tab);
683
684
685 /**
686 * Function to get the filter of the current tab.
687 * @param main_win, the main window the viewer belongs to.
688 * @param filter, a pointer to a filter.
689 */
690
691 //FIXME
692 typedef void lttv_filter;
693 //FIXME
694 const lttv_filter *lttvwindow_get_filter(Tab *tab);
695
696
697 /**
698 * Function to get the stats of the traceset
699 * It must be non const so the viewer can modify it.
700 * FIXME : a set/get pair of functions would be more appropriate here.
701 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
702 * @return A pointer to Traceset statistics.
703 */
704
705 LttvTracesetStats* lttvwindow_get_traceset_stats(Tab *tab);
706
707 /**
708 * Function to get the context of the traceset
709 * It must be non const so the viewer can add and remove hooks from it.
710 * @param tab the tab the viewer belongs to.
711 * @return Context of the current tab.
712 */
713
714
715 LttvTracesetContext* lttvwindow_get_traceset_context(Tab *tab);
716
717
718 #endif //VIEWER_H
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