smaps plugin: instants track, datagrid details panel (#6184) For traces with smaps packets, we now show process-scoped tracks with instants representing those smaps snapshots. When selected, the list of mappings is shown in the details panel as a datagrid. One complication is that typically a trace won't record all possible value columns (such as rss, anon, etc), so I wanted to render only the relevant columns in the details panel to make it less cluttered/misleading. The underlying SQL table doesn't have nullability (unset readings default to 0), and I am not convinced that adding nullability is worth the increased effort to query the table by people. What I've done instead: the entire smaps table is scanned and only columns that have a nonzero reading are shown in all smaps details panels for that trace. Similarly, the "aggregate_count" is only shown if at least one snapshot has aggregation. So there is some ambiguity and a particular corner case: if a value was recorded, but was truly zero for all snapshots in the trace (right now that column would end up hidden). Also, I'm deliberately not doing anything special for a hypothetical trace with smaps packets recorded with different configs.
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