Question about rtems_cpu_usage_report

[Sebastian Huber]

On 27/04/2020 14:49, Joel Sherrill wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:10 AM Sebastian Huber 
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de 
> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Carmen,
>
>     On 24/04/2020 10:10, Carmen Pastor wrote:
>     > Hi All,
>     >
>     > I've a question for RTEMS 4.10. I'm using the function
>     > rtems_cpu_usage_report() to get the CPU usage, and it is working
>     well
>     > but now I need to process the data of the output report, so I would
>     > like to get the report data in some kind of structure. I see the
>     function
>     > rtems_cpu_usage_report_with_plugin() but I don't know how use it,
>     > could someone of you give me an example?
>     unfortunately, the CPU usage report is not available in a
>     structure. You
>     could refactor the rtems_cpu_usage_report_with_plugin() function
>     and add
>     a variant which passes a structure with the CPU usage to a visitor
>     function.
>
>
> FWIW the stack usage information is in the same situation. These are both
> desirable features but no one has stepped up to see that they got 
> implemented.
>
> I know of at least one application that actually wrote the reports to 
> a file and then
> parsed it to get their structure. Why they didn't invest the effort in 
> refactoring the
> code, I don't know.
It seems some users have an unfounded fear about modifying RTEMS sources.