perf json: Pipe mode --to-json support
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:52:39 +0000 (17:52 -0800)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:45:22 +0000 (17:45 -0300)
In pipe mode the environment may not be fully initialized so be robust
to fields being NULL. Add default handling of feature and attr events.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman@collabora.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/data-convert-json.c

index eefa3a9..6a62632 100644 (file)
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ struct convert_json {
 static void output_json_string(FILE *out, const char *s)
 {
        fputc('"', out);
+       if (!s)
+               goto out;
+
        while (*s) {
                switch (*s) {
 
@@ -71,6 +74,7 @@ static void output_json_string(FILE *out, const char *s)
 
                ++s;
        }
+out:
        fputc('"', out);
 }
 
@@ -322,6 +326,16 @@ static void output_headers(struct perf_session *session, struct convert_json *c)
        output_json_format(out, false, 2, "]");
 }
 
+static int process_feature_event(const struct perf_tool *tool __maybe_unused,
+                                struct perf_session *session,
+                                union perf_event *event)
+{
+       if (event->feat.feat_id < HEADER_LAST_FEATURE)
+               return perf_event__process_feature(session, event);
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
 int bt_convert__perf2json(const char *input_name, const char *output_name,
                struct perf_data_convert_opts *opts __maybe_unused)
 {
@@ -360,6 +374,8 @@ int bt_convert__perf2json(const char *input_name, const char *output_name,
        c.tool.auxtrace_info  = perf_event__process_auxtrace_info;
        c.tool.auxtrace       = perf_event__process_auxtrace;
        c.tool.event_update   = perf_event__process_event_update;
+       c.tool.attr           = perf_event__process_attr;
+       c.tool.feature        = process_feature_event;
        c.tool.ordering_requires_timestamps = true;
 
        if (opts->all) {