updates

Sat Oct 29 14:29:55 2005  Søren Sandmann  <sandmann@redhat.com>

	* README, TODO: updates

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Oct 29 14:29:55 2005  Søren Sandmann  <sandmann@redhat.com>
+
+	* README, TODO: updates
+
 Fri Oct 14 11:44:43 2005  Søren Sandmann  <sandmann@redhat.com>
 
 	* configure.ac: Add a warning about known bugs in the kernel

README

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ would be appreciated.
 
 
 
-
 Requirements:
 
 - A Linux kernel version 2.6.11 or newer is required.
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ Requirements:
 
 - GTK+ 2.6.0 or newer is required
 
-- libglade 2.5.1 is required
+- libglade 2.5.1 or newer is required
 
 
 Compiling:
@@ -35,28 +34,31 @@ Compiling:
   system compiler, but if you have upgraded your kernel it is
   possible that the new kernel was compiled with a different compiler
 
-  In that case, "modprobe sysprof-module" will produce this 
+  If the module is compiled with a different compiler than the one 
+  compiling the kernel, "modprobe sysprof-module" will produce this
   error message:
 
     insmod: error inserting './sysprof-module.o': -1 Invalid module format
 
 
-
 Debugging symbols
 
-- The programs you want to profile should have debugging symbols, or
-  you won't get much usable information. On a Fedora Core system,
-  installing the relevant -debuginfo package should be sufficient.
+- The programs and libraries you want to profile should have debugging
+  symbols, or you won't get much usable information. On a Fedora Core system,
+  installing the relevant <package>-debuginfo package should be sufficient.
+  On Ubuntu and Debian, the debug packages are called <package>-dbg.
 
-
-- X server.
+- X server
 
   The X server as shipped by most distributions uses its own home-rolled
   module loading system and Sysprof has no way to deal with that, so if you
-  run sysprof with your normal X serverr you won't get any information about
+  run sysprof with your normal X server you won't get any information about
   how time is spent inside the X server.
 
-  To fix this you have to compile your own X server:
+  On Ubuntu and Debian there is a package, xserver-xorg-dbg, containing a
+  binary called Xorg-debug that is built in such a way that sysprof can use
+  it. On other systems, to get an X server with usable symbols you
+  have to compile your own:
 
   (1) Compile the X server to use ".so" modules:
 
@@ -64,17 +66,20 @@ Debugging symbols
 	  xc/config/cf/xorgsite.def. 
 
 	  If you are compiling the CVS version of the X server
-	  (the one that will eventually become 7.0), then this is
+	  (the one that will eventually become 6.9), then this is
 	  already the default.
 
 	- "make World"
+	
+	- Don't run "make install" yet. (See below).
 
-  (2) Install the X server making sure it can't see any ".a" files. If
-      you install on top of an existing installation, just do
+  (2) Make sure the new X server can't see any old ".a" files lying 
+      around. If you install on top of an existing installation, just do
 
 	  find /usr/X11R6/lib/"*.a" | sudo xargs rm
 
-      and install the newly compiled X server. 
+      then run "make install" as root to install the newly compiled
+      X server. 
 
       If a ".so" X server finds .a files in its module path it will
       try to load those in preference to .so files and this causes

TODO

@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ Before 1.0.1:
 	This is just the (deleted) problem.
 
 * Build system
-   - Find out what distributions it actually works on
-       (ask for sucess/failure-stories in 1.0 releases)
-
    - Create RPM package? See fedora-packaging-list for information
      about how to package kernel modules. Lots of threads in
      June 2005 and forward.
@@ -16,6 +13,18 @@ Before 1.0.1:
 
 Before 1.2:
 
+* Crash reported by Rudi Chiarito with n_addrs == 0.
+
+* Find out why we get hangs with rawhide kernels. This only happens with the
+  'trace "current"' code. See this mail:
+	
+	http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2005-08/msg00157.html
+
+  esp0 points to top of kernel stack
+  esp  points to top of user stack
+
+  (Reported by Kjartan Marass).
+
 * Figure out how to make sfile.[ch] use less memory.
 	- In general clean sfile.[ch] up a little:
 	- split out dfa in its own generic class
@@ -443,7 +452,13 @@ Later:
 
 DONE:
 
-Before 1.0:
+* Find out what distributions it actually works on
+   (ask for sucess/failure-stories in 1.0 releases)
+
+* Add note in README about Ubuntu and Debian -dbg packages and how to get
+  debug symbols for X there.
+
+* Before 1.0:
 
    - Update version numbers in source
 

xmlstore.c

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+typedef struct ParsedItem ParsedItem;
+
+typedef enum
+{
+    BEGIN,
+    TEXT,
+    END
+} XmlItemType;
+
+struct XmlItem
+{
+    XmlItemType type;
+    char [1]	data;
+};
+
+struct XmlStore
+{
+    XmlItem *	items;
+
+    GHashTable *user_data_map;
+};
+
+struct ParsedItem
+{
+    XmlItemType	type;
+
+    union
+    {
+	struct
+	{
+	    char * element;
+	    int	   n_attrs;
+	    char **attr;
+	} begin_item;
+
+	struct
+	{
+	    char *text;
+	} text_item;
+
+	struct
+	{
+	    char *element;
+	} end_item;
+    } u;
+};
+
+static void
+parse_begin_item (XmlItem    *item,
+		  ParsedItem *parsed_item)
+{
+    
+}
+
+static void
+parse_end_item (XmlItem    *item,
+		ParsedItem *parsed_item)
+{
+    
+}
+
+static void
+parse_text_item (XmlItem    *item,
+		 ParsedItem *parsed_item)
+{
+    
+}
+
+static ParsedItem *
+parsed_item_new (XmlItem *item)
+{
+    ParsedItem *parsed_item = g_new0 (ParsedItem, 0);
+    
+    switch (item->type)
+    {
+    case BEGIN:
+	parsed_item->type = BEGIN;
+	parse_begin_item (item, parsed_item);
+	break;
+
+    case END:
+	parsed_item->type = END;
+	parse_end_item (item, parsed_item);
+	break;
+
+    case TEXT:
+	parsed_item->type = TEXT;
+	parse_text_item (item, parsed_item);
+	break;
+    }
+
+    return parsed_item;
+}
+
+static void
+parsed_item_free (ParsedItem *item)
+{
+    
+}

xmlstore.h

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+typedef struct XmlIter XmlIter;
+typedef struct XmlStore XmlStore;
+
+XmlStore *xml_store_new           (void);
+void      xml_store_free          (XmlStore   *store);
+void      xml_store_append_begin  (XmlStore   *store,
+				   const char *element);
+void      xml_store_append_end    (XmlStore   *store,
+				   const char *element);
+void      xml_store_append_text   (XmlStore   *store,
+				   const char *text);
+void      xml_store_write         (XmlStore   *store,
+				   const char *file,
+				   GError     *file);
+void      xml_store_set_data      (XmlIter    *iter,
+				   gpointer    data);
+gpointer  xml_store_get_data      (XmlIter    *iter,
+				   gpointer    data);
+void      xml_store_has_data      (XmlIter    *iter);
+
+/* An iter stays valid as long as the XmlStore is valid */
+XmlIter * xml_store_get_iter      (XmlStore   *store);
+XmlIter * xml_iter_get_sibling    (XmlIter    *iter);
+XmlIter * xml_iter_get_child      (XmlIter    *iter);
+int       xml_iter_get_n_children (XmlIter    *iter);
+gboolean  xml_iter_valid          (XmlIter    *iter);
+
+
+void
+process_tree (XmlIter *iter)
+{
+    XmlIter *i;
+    
+    if (!xml_iter_valid (iter))
+	return;
+
+    /* siblings */
+    i = xml_iter_sibling (iter);
+    while (xml_iter_valid (i))
+    {
+	process_tree (i);
+
+	i = xml_iter_sibling (i);
+    }
+
+    /* children */
+    process_tree (xml_iter_child (iter));
+	
+    
+    process_tree (xml_iter_sibling (iter));
+    process_tree (xml_iter_child (iter));
+}
+
+void
+process_store (XmlStore *store)
+{
+    process_tree (xml_store_get_iter (store));
+}