Mir component reports¶
Both the server library and the client library include facilities to provide debugging and tracing information at runtime. This is achieved through component reports, which are sets of interesting events provided by many Mir components. A component report can be usually handled in a number of different ways, configured using command-line options and/or environment variables. By default, component reports are turned off.
Server reports¶
The way component reports are handled on the server can be configured using
either command-line options or environment variables. The environment variables
are prefixed with MIR_SERVER_ and contain underscores (‘_’) instead of dashes
(‘-‘). The available component reports and handlers for the server are:
Environment variable |
Command line option |
Handlers |
|---|---|---|
MIR_SERVER_COMPOSITOR_REPORT |
–compositor-report |
log,lttng |
MIR_SERVER_DISPLAY_REPORT |
–display-report |
log,lttng |
MIR_SERVER_INPUT_REPORT |
–input-report |
log,lttng |
MIR_SERVER_LEGACY_INPUT_REPORT |
–legacy-input-report |
log |
MIR_SERVER_SEAT_REPORT |
–seat-report |
log |
MIR_SERVER_SCENE_REPORT |
–scene-report |
log,lttng |
MIR_SERVER_SHARED_LIBRARY_PROBER_REPORT |
–shared-library-prober-report |
log,lttng |
For example, to enable the LTTng input report, one could either use the
--input-report=lttng command-line option to the server, or set the
MIR_SERVER_INPUT_REPORT=lttng environment variable.
LTTng support¶
Mir provides LTTng tracepoints for various interesting events. You can enable LTTng tracing for a Mir component by using the corresponding command-line option or environment variable for that component’s report:
$ lttng create mirsession -o /tmp/mirsession
$ lttng enable-event -u -a
$ lttng start
$ mir_demo_server --compositor-report=lttng
$ lttng stop
$ babeltrace /tmp/mirsession/<trace-subdir>
LTTng-UST versions up to and including 2.1.2, and up to and including 2.2-rc2 contain a bug (lttng #538) that prevents event recording if the tracepoint provider is dlopen()-ed at runtime, like in the case of Mir. If you have a version of LTTng affected by this bug, you need to preload the server tracepoint provider library:
$ LD_PRELOAD=libmirserverlttng.so mir_demo_server --compositor-report=lttng