All initializations of the ctypes struct that don't need additional information were moved to its init method. The unneeded initializations for sample_type and sample_period were removed as they do not affect the counters that are read.
This improves readability of the setup_event_attribute by halfing its LOC. --- scripts/kvm/kvm_stat | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat index 109c22c..ab10b1a 100755 --- a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat +++ b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat @@ -312,6 +312,13 @@ class perf_event_attr(ctypes.Structure): ('bp_addr', ctypes.c_uint64), ('bp_len', ctypes.c_uint64), ] + + def __init__(self): + super(self.__class__, self).__init__() + self.type = PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT + self.size = ctypes.sizeof(self) + self.read_format = PERF_FORMAT_GROUP + def perf_event_open(attr, pid, cpu, group_fd, flags): return syscall(ARCH.sc_perf_evt_open, ctypes.pointer(attr), ctypes.c_int(pid), ctypes.c_int(cpu), @@ -348,11 +355,7 @@ class Event(object): tracepoint, 'id') event_attr = perf_event_attr() - event_attr.type = PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT - event_attr.size = ctypes.sizeof(event_attr) event_attr.config = int(open(id_path).read()) - event_attr.sample_period = 1 - event_attr.read_format = PERF_FORMAT_GROUP return event_attr def setup_event(self, event_data): -- 2.3.0