Re: [PATCH 6/6] perf tools: Try to show pretty printed output for dynamic sort keys

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:03:29AM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:46:13AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > Each tracepoint event has format string for print to improve
> > readability.  Try to parse the output and match the field name.  If it
> > finds one, use that for the result.  If not, fallbacks to the original
> > output.
> > 
> > For example, sort on kmem:kmalloc.gfp_flags looks like below:
> > (Note: libtraceevent plugins are not installed on my system.  They might
> > affect the output below)
> > 
> > Before:
> >   # Overhead  Command   gfp_flags
> >   # ........  .......  ..........
> >   #
> >       99.89%  perf          32848
> >        0.06%  sleep           208
> >        0.03%  perf          32976
> >        0.01%  perf            208
> > 
> > After:
> >   # Overhead  Command            gfp_flags
> >   # ........  .......  ...................
> >   #
> >       99.89%  perf       GFP_NOFS|GFP_ZERO
> >        0.06%  sleep             GFP_KERNEL
> >        0.03%  perf     GFP_KERNEL|GFP_ZERO
> >        0.01%  perf              GFP_KERNEL
> 
> hum, maybe we want some way to switch back to numbers?

Or remove repetitive stuff like GFP_? I guess this was done already for
perf kmem?

- Arnaldo