This commit is based on exploratory work by Sohaib Mohamed.
The end goal is two-fold - to support addition of Meters we
build via configuration files for both the PCP platform and
for scripts ( https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/issues/526 )
Here, we focus on generic code and the PCP support. A new
class DynamicMeter is introduced - it uses the special case
'param' field handling that previously was used only by the
CPUMeter, such that every runtime-configured Meter is given
a unique identifier. Unlike with the CPUMeter this is used
internally only. When reading/writing to htoprc instead of
CPU(N) - where N is an integer param (CPU number) - we use
the string name for each meter. For example, if we have a
configuration for a DynamicMeter for some Redis metrics, we
might read and write "Dynamic(redis)". This identifier is
subsequently matched (back) up to the configuration file so
we're able to re-create arbitrary user configurations.
The PCP platform configuration file format is fairly simple.
We expand configs from several directories, including the
users homedir alongside htoprc (below htop/meters/) and also
/etc/pcp/htop/meters. The format will be described via a
new pcp-htop(5) man page, but its basically ini-style and
each Meter has one or more metric expressions associated, as
well as specifications for labels, color and so on via a dot
separated notation for individual metrics within the Meter.
A few initial sample configuration files are provided below
./pcp/meters that give the general idea. The PCP "derived"
metric specification - see pmRegisterDerived(3) - is used
as the syntax for specifying metrics in PCP DynamicMeters.
Generic data, as CPU and memory usage, are used by Meters.
In paused mode they would stop receiving updates and especially Graph
Meters would stop showing continuous data.
Improves: #214Closes: #253
Reasoning:
- implementation was unsound -- broke down when I added a fairly
basic macro definition expanding to a struct initializer in a *.c
file.
- made it way too easy (e.g. via otherwise totally innocuous git
commands) to end up with timestamps such that it always ran
MakeHeader.py but never used its output, leading to overbuild noise
when running what should be a null 'make'.
- but mostly: it's just an awkward way of dealing with C code.
Squashed the following commits:
* Solaris: Get LWP enumeration working
* Solaris: Make showing and hiding of kernel threads behave
* Solaris: remove usage of lwpstatus that is no longer needed
* Solaris: no discrete access to parent proc structure needed
* Solaris: Restore runtime MaxPid detection after LWP changes
* Solaris: Workaround virtual PID signal issue by shadowing kill() with a macro
* Solaris: Fix unintention double-shifting of virtual PID for LWP enumeration
* Solaris: Add LWPID to default display since LWP enumeration is also default
* Solaris: use PAGE_SIZE_KB from Process.h instead of custom definition
* Solaris: stop LWP enumeration at 1023 LWPs per proc since that is all we can handle in the virtual PID
This commit adds support for Solaris, squashed from PR #741:
Summary of additions:
* Initial setup of Solaris platform directory
* Add Solaris platform into autoconf template
* Uptime and load averages
* Add dependency on libkstat
* Basic process listing
* Zone name display
* CPU detection
* Per-process memory and CPU usage parsed correctly
* Uses sysconf to discover number of CPUs, instead of more complex libkstat code
* Simple memory display working
* Reduce repetitive calls to the PAGE_SIZE macro when reading memory info
* Add Project, Contract, Task, and Pool into process properties
* Use system major()/minor() implementations and remove extraneous definition of mkdev()
* Get the STARTTIME column working properly, using the Linux implementation as a guide
Christian Göttsche