Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] perf tools: Add 'perf-config' command

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi Taeung,

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:39:57AM +0900, Taeung Song wrote:
> Changes in v4:
> 	- If some config value is default value, notice it is '(default)'as below.
> 
> 	  # perf config colors.normal
> 	  colors.normal=lightgray, default (default)
> 
> 	- A config file path is only decided in perf_config().
> 	And a perf-config command depend on perf_config() deciding a config file path.
> 	So if the config file path is NULL because of some reason like no such file,
> 	a perf-config command can't write to the file. So, I added new options
> 	which are '--global' and '--system' to be enable to select
> 	config file path to be used without perf_config().
> 
> Changes in v3:
> 	- Add a config variable 'kmem.default' with a default value
> 	into 'struct default_configset' which has default config variables and values.
> 
> 	- Add a option '--global' and '--local' to enable config file location to  be selected
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 	- Renaming variables a more suitable name
> 	  1. '--list-all' instead of '--all'
> 	  2. 'name' instead of 'subkey'
> 	  3. 'section, name, value' instead of 'given_section, subkey, value'
> 
> 	- Correct small infelicities or typing errors in a perf-config documention.
> 
> 	- Remove a part description of report.children
> 	because it was duplicated in Documentation/callchain-overhead-calculation.txt
> 
> 	- Use a variable 'int actions' instead of struct params which has
> 	'bool list_action' , 'bool get_action’ and etc. , to simplify a branching statement
> 	for perf-config options.
> 
> 	- Declaration a global variable 'static struct default_configsets' has config variables
> 	with default values instead of using a 'util/PERFCONFIG-DEFAULT' file
> 	and remove functions merge() and perse_key() to get perf config default values.
> 
> 	- Add a function to normalize a value and check data type of it.
> 
> 	- Simplify parsing arguments as arguments is just divided by '=' and then
> 	in front of '.' is a section, between '.' and '=' is a name, and behind '=' is a value.
> 
> 	- Print config variables 'struct default_configsets' haven't 
> 
> 	- Make a command ’perf config' without a option work as with a option '—list'
> 	instead of '--list-all’.

It seems the changelog itself is too big.  I suggest make it more
compact and put the details in the corresponding patches.  Also you'd
be better keeping the general description for the patchset here.

Thanks,
Namhyung


> 
> Taeung Song (5):
>   perf tools: Add 'perf-config' command
>   perf config: Add '--system' and '--global' options to be able to
>     select which config file to be used
>   perf config: Add functions which can get or set perf config variables
>   perf config: Add a option 'list-all' to perf-config
>   perf config: Add a option 'remove' to perf-config
> 
>  tools/perf/Build                            |   1 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt    | 407 ++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perfconfig.example |  73 ++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-config.c                 | 718 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/builtin.h                        |   1 +
>  tools/perf/command-list.txt                 |   1 +
>  tools/perf/perf.c                           |   1 +
>  tools/perf/util/cache.h                     |  19 +
>  tools/perf/util/config.c                    |  29 +-
>  9 files changed, 1236 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-config.txt
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/builtin-config.c
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.1
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