From 14cbfbeb76540cc0c53fbb0ba34b3a4900ebe40f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namhyung Kim Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 20:41:53 +0900 Subject: perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line Currently perf report only shows a help message "For a higher level overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso" unconditionally (even if the sort keys were used). Add more help tips and show randomly. Load tips from ${prefix}/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt file. $ perf report | tail 0.10% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] irq_exit 0.09% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] flush_smp_call_function_queue 0.08% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe 0.03% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] group_sched_in 0.01% perf [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_write_msr_safe # # (Tip: Search options using a keyword: perf report -h ) # Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452166913-27046-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org [ Renamed it to perf_tip() and the parameter dirname to dirpath to fix the build on older distros ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/util.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/util.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/util') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c index aff0cfd83662..88b8f8d21f58 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/util.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ #include #include #include "callchain.h" +#include "strlist.h" +#include struct callchain_param callchain_param = { .mode = CHAIN_GRAPH_ABS, @@ -663,3 +665,28 @@ fetch_kernel_version(unsigned int *puint, char *str, *puint = (version << 16) + (patchlevel << 8) + sublevel; return 0; } + +const char *perf_tip(const char *dirpath) +{ + struct strlist *tips; + struct str_node *node; + char *tip = NULL; + struct strlist_config conf = { + .dirname = system_path(dirpath) , + }; + + tips = strlist__new("tips.txt", &conf); + if (tips == NULL || strlist__nr_entries(tips) == 1) { + tip = (char *)"Cannot find tips.txt file"; + goto out; + } + + node = strlist__entry(tips, random() % strlist__nr_entries(tips)); + if (asprintf(&tip, "Tip: %s", node->s) < 0) + tip = (char *)"Tip: get more memory! ;-)"; + +out: + strlist__delete(tips); + + return tip; +} diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.h b/tools/perf/util/util.h index 4b519c59bdc3..fe915e616f9b 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/util.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/util.h @@ -342,4 +342,6 @@ int fetch_kernel_version(unsigned int *puint, #define KVER_FMT "%d.%d.%d" #define KVER_PARAM(x) KVER_VERSION(x), KVER_PATCHLEVEL(x), KVER_SUBLEVEL(x) +const char *perf_tip(const char *dirpath); + #endif /* GIT_COMPAT_UTIL_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3