tools lib traceevent: Added support for __get_bitmask() macro

Coming in v3.16, trace events will be able to save bitmasks in raw
format in the ring buffer and output it with the __get_bitmask() macro.

In order for userspace tools to parse this, it must be able to handle
the __get_bitmask() call and be able to convert the data that's in
the ring buffer into a nice bitmask format. The output is similar to
what the kernel uses to print bitmasks, with a comma separator every
4 bytes (8 characters).

This allows for cpumasks to also be saved efficiently.

The first user is the thermal:thermal_power_limit event which has the
following output:

 thermal_power_limit:  cpus=0000000f freq=1900000 cdev_state=0 power=5252

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Suggested-by: Javi Merino <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Javi Merino <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
index e108207c5de0..af7da565a750 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.c
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ static void define_event_symbols(struct event_format *event,
 	case PRINT_BSTRING:
 	case PRINT_DYNAMIC_ARRAY:
 	case PRINT_STRING:
+	case PRINT_BITMASK:
 		break;
 	case PRINT_TYPE:
 		define_event_symbols(event, ev_name, args->typecast.item);