(component-reports)=

# 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_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:

```shell
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:

```shell
LD_PRELOAD=libmirserverlttng.so mir_demo_server --compositor-report=lttng
```
