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2015-05-14perf report: Fix some option handling on --stdioNamhyung Kim1-5/+0
There's a bug that perf report sometimes ignore some options on --stdio output. This bug is triggered only if a related config variable is set. For example, let's assume we have a following config file. $ cat ~/.perfconfig [call-graph] print-type = graph [hist] percentage = absolute Then, following perf config will not honor some options. $ perf record -ag sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.199 MB perf.data (77 samples) ] $ perf report -g none --stdio # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # Samples: 77 of event 'cycles' # Event count (approx.): 25425383 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............... ....................... .............. # 16.34% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle | ---intel_idle cpuidle_enter_state cpuidle_enter cpu_startup_entry ... With '-g none' option, it should not show callchains, but it still shows callchains. However it works as expected on --tui output. Similarly, '--percentage relative' option is not work and still shows a absolute percentage values. Looking at the source, I found that those setting were overwritten by config variables when setup_pager() called. The setup_pager() is to start a pager process so that it can manage long lines of output on the stdio mode. But as it calls the perf_config() after parsing arguments, the settings were overwritten regardless of command line options. The reason it calls perf_config() is to find the 'pager_program' which might be set by a config variable, I guess. However current perf code does not provide the config variable for it, so it's just meaningless IMHO. Eliminating the call makes the option working as expected. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431529406-6762-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-05-21perf tools: Add cat as fallback pagerMichael Lentine1-6/+6
This patch adds a fallback to cat for the pager. This is useful on environments, such as Android, where less does not exist. It is better to default to cat than to abort. Signed-off-by: Michael Lentine <mlentine@google.com> Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400579330-5043-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
2012-05-30perf tools: Fix pager on minimal-install embedded systemsAvik Sil1-0/+4
Some Distributions may lack "less" package being included by default, e.g., Linaro nano rootfs. In those cases use the portable "pager" command instead of "less". Signed-off-by: Avik Sil <avik.sil@linaro.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338287725-26382-1-git-send-email-avik.sil@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2009-06-27perf_counter tools: Remove dead codeIngo Molnar1-4/+1
Vince Weaver reported that there's a handful of #ifdef __MINGW32__ sections in the code. Remove them as they are in essence dead code - as unlike upstream Git, the perf tool is unlikely to be ported to Windows. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/Ingo Molnar1-0/+99
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the (new) tools/ directory. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>