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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sohaib Mohamed 6f2021f3d9 PCP: support for 'dynamic columns' added at runtime
Implements support for arbitrary Performance Co-Pilot
metrics with per-process instance domains to form new
htop columns.  The column-to-metric mappings are setup
using configuration files which will be documented via
man pages as part of a follow-up commit.

We provide an initial set of column configurations so
as to provide new capabilities to pcp-htop: including
configs for containers, open fd counts, scheduler run
queue time, tcp/udp bytes/calls sent/recv, delay acct,
virtual machine guests, detailed virtual memory, swap.

Note there is a change to the configuration file path
resolution algorithm introduced for 'dynamic meters'.
First, look in any custom PCP_HTOP_DIR location.  Then
iterate, in priority order, users home directory, then
local sysadmins files in /etc/pcp/htop, then readonly
configuration files below /usr/share/pcp/htop.  This
final location becomes the preferred place for our own
shipped meter and column files.

The Settings file (htoprc) writing code is updated to
not using the numeric identifier for dynamic columns.
The same strategy used for dynamic meters is used here
where we write Dynamic(name) so the name can be setup
once more at start.  Regular (static) columns writing
to htoprc - i.e. numerically indexed - is unchanged.
2021-08-13 07:32:57 +02:00
Sohaib Mohamed 90b209ee37 PCP: fixup: Missing headers for DynamicMeter 2021-07-18 09:36:59 +02:00
Nathan Scott bf853addc3 Ensure PCP dynamic metric configuration definition uniqueness
It can happen that pcp-htop is presented multiple definitions
of the same dynamic meter, e.g. if /etc/pcp/htop/meters has a
definition matching one in ~/.config/htop/meters - instead of
exiting with a duplicate metric error provide more meaningful
diagnostics (on close) and also just skip over such entries.
System files override home directories which overrides those
found below the current working directory.

Also fix the derived metric error diagnostic; because this is
using CRT_fatalError, which is like perror(3), we must give a
meaningful prefix (like program name) at the string end.
2021-07-14 11:58:46 +10:00
Nathan Scott a476490282 Ensure we do not attempt to add a DynamicMeter via the
htoprc that we didn't find during start up.  This just
leaves blank sections of the display as @smalinux found.

Related to https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/pull/682
2021-07-14 11:58:31 +10:00
Nathan Scott f0ed0fdafb Add a new DynamicMeter class for runtime Meter extension
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.
2021-07-07 10:59:36 +10:00